in reply to "pointers" for calling a DLL

When you Open a new file (using your application object) you may create a new file object so perhaps you need to do something like this?

my $obj = $XRawfile->Open("$rawFile"); my $filename = $obj->GetFileName(); print "the file is: $filename\n";

cheers

tachyon

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