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

From:
"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:25:23 -0700
Message-ID:
<e5Hpe4zNKHA.5084@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Make sure you're not calling CoInitializeEx with argument other than
COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED.

If COM is initialized on the current thread with COINIT_MULTITHREADED mode,
the shell functions (including the file dialog) won't work.

"Guido Franzke" <guidof73@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:OXfGyusNKHA.3588@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

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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