>>>>>Thanks, Greg, that did the trick. Don't think I understand much of the code but as long as it works I'm happy...
>>>>>
>>>>>Calvin
>>>>
>>>>Your welcome.
>>>
>>>Hi Greg,
>>>
>>>I haven't checked it - could you please tell us what it's based on?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Basicly it is the same as the GetFile() function, except with two additional arguments. An argument to tell it how to present the UI, and a argument to initialize the default file. You will find the list of values in a set of #Define statement in the body of the code. If look close to it, you find that it can also be a PutFile() replacement by changing the object method call of oGetFile.GetOpenFileName() to a oGetFile.GetSaveFileName() (I am not sure if it supports multiple filename thou.) The function returns a carriage return/linefeed delimited list of the selected filenames.
>>
>>Sorry for the lake of comments in the code. I did not write the code. But you can find documentation about the DLL functions used by googling GetOpenFileNameA and GetSaveFileNameA.
>>
>>

>>*-- cheap example
>>c=CHR(13)+CHR(10)
>>? mgetfile("bmp~Bitmap"+c+"ico~icon"+c+"gif~gif"+c+"jpg~jpeg","text","open",0xFFFFFFFF,"title",.t.,"Test.bmp")
>>

>
>Greg,
>
>You specified the first parameter wrong. The description comes first, then the extension which can also exist of several, delimited by a semicolon.

>? MGetFile( "Icons and Cursors~*.ico;*.cur" + chr(13)+chr(10) + "Sound Files~*.wav", "Selected", "Select", 0xFFFFFFFF, "Select an icon, cur of wav file", .t., "" )

>There are some other problems I encounter. The 2nd and 3rd parameters seem to have no visual effect on my computer (XP). Further, you specified 0xFFFFFFFF. Also seems to have no effect (I specified 0, 1 or 2, as documented for Getfile(), also without effect.)
>
>Should I debug the code?

If you like. Update the code with any fixes you may need to do and email me a final copy. I will update the download version with credit to you for the debugging. I do not recall who actually wrote the code. It was given to me over ten years ago.