Configuring Browse Options of Path Controls
- Updated2025-01-22
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Configuring Browse Options of Path Controls
You can display a browse button for path controls by right-clicking the path control and selecting Visible Items»Browse Button from the shortcut menu to place a checkmark next to it. You also can use the Browse Button:Visible property to display the browse button programmatically.
Complete the following steps to customize the settings of the file dialog that appears when you click the Browse button of the file path control, such as which types of paths you can select, a start path, a pattern to match, and so on.
- Right-click a path control and select Browse Options from the shortcut menu to display the Browse Options page of the Path Properties dialog box.
- Select the appropriate option in the Selection Mode section. The options in this section are similar to the Selection Mode options in the configuration dialog box of the File Dialog Express VI.
- Click the OK button.
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Tip To list multiple file types in a file dialog box using the File Dialog Express VI or Open/Create/Replace File function, wire a string constant or control to the pattern terminal and use semicolons to separate the patterns, for example fx*.bin;*.c. |