Hi -

I saved a picture in my "standard" pic directory as

John B. Smith.jpg

and when I went to "insert" the path into my database image element, the image name was not listed.  I checked in Windows Explorer and, sure 'nuff, t'was there. 

I must have wasted a good 10 or 15 minutes trying to resave and insert the picture when it finally dawned on me that this happened to me before. 

As soon as I renamed the picture WIHOUT the period after the initial "B" as

James B Smith.jpg

everything was fine.

I just wanted to point this out so that other people don't have the same problem.

Also, I am curious -- is this something peculiar to Sesame?  Can it be fixed?

Thanks!

Mark -

I appreciate your explanation; however, I am still a little confused.

Apparently there is no problem with Windows per se because the file name John B. Smith.jpg is not a problem for any other program I use.  It was there in Windows Explorer and I could retrieve it without any problem. It was there in Microsoft Picture It Express and I could retrieve it without any problem.  After reading your eply, I even opened a word document, selected Insert/File and both pictures appeared whether the name contained the "extra" period or not.

I can understand that Sesame might look for the file extension after the period, but couldn't it simply be programmed to look for the LAST period (or put another way, start searching the file name from right to left to find the "first" period) .... and then interpret the file type? 

It's not a "biggy" but it would certainly be an enhancement to the software if we didn't have to worry about little nuances when saving a file.

We don't look for any periods. We ask the OS to return a list of files with a particular extension (often called a "filter" in MS). The OS returns that list based on where it finds the extensions.

What I meant by a problem with extension is that MS (and only MS) uses extensions as the sole means by which to indentify file type. You can name a file "whatever.jpg", even if it is a text file, and MS will treat it from that day forward as though it was a jpeg image - and fail, because its a text file.

Spencer,

I built you a popup image browser. Put it in a command button to give the user a popup menu displaying all .jpg and .gif images in a certain folder. Tweak as needed:

Command button-On Element Entry:

var a as int
var b as string
var vline as string
var vdata as string
var c as string

a = @shell("dir/b "+ @imagepath() +" > c:\files.txt")
b = @insert("C:\files.txt")

while @len(b) > 0
{
vline = split(b, @newline())
if @right(vline,4) = ".jpg" or @right(vline,4) = ".gif" then
vdata = @appendstringarray(vdata,vline)
}

c = @popupmenu(vdata,"Please select image file")
if c <> "" then image = c


Steve

Edit: It should be caledl a 'popup file browser' since you can't preview an image while your browsing....bummer.