GetOpenFileName on Vista, won't recognise lpstrInitialDir

Hello All,

I posted this on the programmer.ui group and got no help, so I'm
cross-posting here. Hope that's OK.

I've got a problem with GetOpenFileName on Vista.

It never recognises the lpstrInitialDir field of the OPENFILE structure and
always starts off in the current working directory.

The code works fine on XP and the other systems.

Anyone seen this and worked around it?

/john

Hi,

For me code:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646829.aspx
works fine also for Vista.

Checked on VS2005 with SDK for Vista

Marcin Domaslawski



"JohnD" <johnd@dyalog.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I posted this on the programmer.ui group and got no help, so I'm
> cross-posting here. Hope that's OK.
>
> I've got a problem with GetOpenFileName on Vista.
>
> It never recognises the lpstrInitialDir field of the OPENFILE structure
> and
> always starts off in the current working directory.
>
> The code works fine on XP and the other systems.
>
> Anyone seen this and worked around it?
>
> /john

The problem is that in XP the "lpstrInitialDir" can take a file path and
it is smart enough to realise that you are refering to the directory
that contains this file. With Vista it ONLY accepts a directory path.
Some simple string manipulation should be able to fix this fairly
easily.


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