ACC: Sample Function to Find File Associations

ID: Q109931

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Access versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0

SUMMARY

Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multiuser skills.

This article demonstrates a sample Access Basic function that you can use to obtain the executable file name associated with a document file name by calling the Microsoft Windows API function FindExecutable().

MORE INFORMATION

The following sample function requires a path string parameter and a file name string parameter. The function returns the path of the associated file.

NOTE: In the following sample code, an underscore (_) is used as a line- continuation character. Remove the underscore from the end of the line when re-creating this code in Access Basic.


   ' *** Declarations Section ***
   Option Explicit

   Declare Function FindExecutable% Lib "Shell" (ByVal lpszFile$, _
      ByVal lpszDir$, ByVal lpszResult$)

   Function GetAssociation (Path As String, FileName As String)
      Dim Result As String, X As Integer
      Result = Space$(256)
      X = FindExecutable(FileName, Path, Result)
      GetAssociation = Result
   End Function

To find the path and name of the executable file associated with a file called MYDB.MDB that is located in the root directory on the D drive you could type the following in an Immediate window:

? GetAssociation ("D:\", "MYDB.MDB")

The function would return


   D:\ACCESS.100\MSACCESS.EXE

if the MYDB.MDB file was associated with the MSACCESS.EXE executable file located in the ACCESS.100 directory on the D drive.

REFERENCES

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit "Programmer's Reference, Volume 2: Functions," Version 3.1, pages 303-305


Keywords          : kbprg 
Version           : 1.0 1.1 2.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: April 1, 1999