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