Re: CFileDialog: "My Computer" not shows drives

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:28:09 -0500
Message-ID:
<OS1BaN6NKHA.4580@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
That's interesting. Which version of VS are you using? I tried your code
as is on 2003 and got good results.

AliR.

"Guido Franzke" <guidof73@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:%23O4$yv3NKHA.5084@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Problem solved:
When I use CString for the filter, everything works fine.
CString hFilter = "jpg Files (*.jpg,*.jpeg)|*.jpg;*.jpeg|All Files
(*.*)|*.*||";

(Although the example in msdn says "static char". Hm.)

Thanks for your tips,
Guido

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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