Access getfiled dialogue box from a DCL dialogue box

[evil2win]

I would appreciate any help with this problem I'm having.

I am designing a dialogue box and need to be able to access and read a text file from a directory. Using lisp I always used the "getfiled". In the DCL dialogue box I'm designing I put an "edit box" and tried to call the "getfiled" command when it was triggered, but it doesn't work. Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong? this is the line of code in the lisp routine:

 

 (action_tile "eb1" "(setq tagfile (getfiled "Select target file" "c:" "txt" 0 ))" ) 

 

Thanks

Edited July 31, 2012 by evil2win

[Stefan BMR]

Each double quote (within action expression) must be preceded by a backslash.

(action_tile "eb1" "(setq tagfile (getfiled \"Select target file\" \"c:\\" \"txt\" 0 ))" )

[evil2win]

very good!!...thanks a lot. Now I just have to work on getting the dialogue box to come up as soon as the edit box is selected....right now it comes up once the DCL has been accepted

[SLW210]

evil2win,

 

Please read the CODE POSTING GUIDELINES and edit your post to include the code in tags.

 

No need to post more than one thread on the same question. I deleted the other thread.