Re: CFileDialog: "My Computer" not shows files and dirs

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:42:38 -0500
Message-ID:
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Your call to CFileDialog looks fine, I presonally wouldn't use a static
variable for the filter string, but other than that it looks fine.

AliR.

"Guido Franzke" <guidof73@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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The list field is empty. There are no drives, although I have harddisks
and
net drives. When I open e.g. in notepad, I can see the same CFileDialog,
but
here the My Computer drives are all shown.
Why they are not shown in my CFileDialog? I can only select my drive with
the combobox on top, when I select there, all drives and files/dirs are
shown everywhere (e.g. in C: system)

Do you know why in "My Computer" nothing is shown?

"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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My Computer only lists drives that are connected to your computer, it
does
not contain any files or folders.

Does it display files when you select C drive for example?

AliR.

"Guido Franzke" <guidof73@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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Hello NG,

I see a strange behaviour of CFileDialog on some, but not all
computers.
When I open a dialog in Windows XP with

  static char hFilter[] = "jpg Files (*.jpg,*.jpeg)|*.jpg;*.jpeg|All

Files

(*.*)|*.*||";
  CFileDialog fdlg(TRUE, "", "",OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST| OFN_HIDEREADONLY,
hFilter, this);
  if (fdlg.DoModal() == IDOK) ...

When I press left on "My Computer", the file list don't show files and
directories. But there are e.g drives and network drives. When I press

"My

documents" the file and directory list is shown correctly.

Even when I swap the filter definitions to
  static char hFilter[] = "All Files (*.*)|*.*|jpg Files
(*.jpg,*.jpeg)|*.jpg;*.jpeg||";
the "My Computer" does not show anything.

Why is it?

Thanks for help,
Guido

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