Get full file and path name

[Sitaneph]

I want to put the full file and path on a layout in a workspace (eg C:
\Project\mapping\general.wor) and i can't figure out how to get the
full path and file name in MapBasic.

Does anyone know what the code is as the help file is not very usefull

[Tony Pilkington]

LAYER_INFO_PATH is the best way

[Driver, Greg 9434]

If you want the workspace path/name rather than a tabfile path/name then
it's a bit more difficult. The following code was posted to the list
(by Dale Atkinson) and it reads the 'most recently used' list (File ->
Recent Files ) to find the last opened workspace:

dim i,s,z as integer
dim name, name1 as string

for i = 1 to 500
if MenuitemInfoByHandler(i,MENUITEM_INFO_HELPMSG) =
"Open this file." then
name =
MenuitemInfoByHandler(i,MENUITEM_INFO_TEXT)
s=instr(1,name,".WOR")
s=instr(1,name,".TAB")
z=instr(1,name,".tab")
z=instr(1,name,".wor")
if s <> 0 then

name1=MenuitemInfoByHandler(i,MENUITEM_INFO_TEXT)
name1=mid$(name1,4,100)
Print "workspace name = " + name1
exit sub
end if
if z <> 0 then

name1=MenuitemInfoByHandler(i,MENUITEM_INFO_TEXT)
name1=mid$(name1,4,100)
Print "workspace name = " + name1
exit sub
end if

end if
next

HTH

Greg Driver

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