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In article <705fkg$fpc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, hdemmel@my-dejanews.com says...
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>In article <36245b09.0@news.via.at>,
>  "Bruce Jackson" <bruce.jackson@update-marketing.com> wrote:
>> There is a really good example that explains how to
>> modify the common File dialog here.
>>
>> http://www.codeguru.com/dialog/cmdlg.shtml
>>
>> Bruce
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>> Bruce Jackson.
>> bruce.jackson@update-marketing.com
>> Vienna, Austria
>> Demmel wrote in message <362353DB.474601BF@apanet.at>...
>> >Hi !
>> >
>> >Any ideas how to change the behavior of the common open/save file dialog
>> >
>> >used by most Win 95/98/NT applications ? I don't want to change the
>> >style of the file dialog of an application I have to write but e.g. the
>> >file dialog you get when you open a file with WRITE.
>> >
>> >Any suggestions ?
>
>Thank you for your response, but: I'm want to modify the open/save dialog
>system wide (and not only for my application), that means I have to deal with
>Sub/superclassed windows or with SetWindowsHookEx (I assume). So simply
>modifying the dialog as suggested in your response is not enough.
>
>Herbert
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I sure as heck can't tell you exactly how to do it, but one alternative would 
be to write your own COMMDLG.DLL and COMDLG32.DLL system files. (I think I got 
the file names right!) I've got no idea if it's even doable, of course.

A trick I played with the mouse driver under Win3.X was to write my own mouse 
driver, then have my driver load the original mouse driver for it to contribute 
what it needed to. (I was writing a touchscreen driver for a system that was 
also to have a mouse on it.) You could probably rename the original DLL files 
and call them as needed.

Certainly not for the faint hearted, and I'm sure that this is something that 
Microsoft would most heartily recommend against. For that matter, I sure do. 
And if you were to sell me an application that did this, I would be most 
mightily p.o.-ed.

So make sure that's what you want to do before you go doing it.

Walt