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Article #13706Re: resizable open-save dialog
From: Regis St-Gelais
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:01
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. -- Regis St-Gelais, P. Eng. / ing. Software Development / D�veloppement informatique Technical Support / Support technique Laubrass inc. www.laubrass.com regis.st-gelais@NOSPAMlaubrass.com (remove / enlever 'NOSPAM') -- "Timothy H. Buchman" <tbuchmanPLEASE(at sign)REMOVEcitycenter.org> a �crit 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 > > -- > Timothy H. Buchman > ======================================== > City Center Theater, New York NY > mail address tbuchmanPLEASE(at sign)REMOVEcitycenter.org > Search .borland message archive on http://www.mers.com/searchsite.html >
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