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Re: resizable open-save dialog

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From: Regis St-Gelais
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:01
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My application use TFileOpenDialog in OWL (I know, this is not the right
news group)
and it does not show a resizable dialog box. It should be calling the
standard common dialog opensave I thing ???
I gess I will have to use the GetOpenFilename API.

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dans le message de news:3f69e467$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Regis St-Gelais <regis.st-gelais@NOSPAMlaubrass.com> wrote in message
> news:3f69ac90$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > I've notice that newer program are now showing a resizable open save
> dialog
> > box.
> > Is it a new API or a new way to call the old open-save commun
> dialog?
>
> AFAIK, Win 2K and WinXP produce this open-save dialog with the same
> old GetOpenFilename API.  That is, no intervention by the user is
> involved.  You should be aware that some programs (including Microsoft
> Word) look like they use this API, but in fact have their own dialogs.
> So their behavior would depend on internal changes and improvements.
>
> You didn't ask about it, but this behavior breaks some code for that
> adds controls to the dialog, if the user resizes them.  Damon Chandler
> has a discussion of this at
> http://www.bridgespublishing.com/articles/issues/0112/Custom_open_dial
> ogs__part_I.htm
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