Creating an Open dialog box to specify the drive, directory, and name of a file to open (Shell32 version) -- Visual FoxPro : Using Win32 (WinAPI) Functions


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Creating an Open dialog box to specify the drive, directory, and name of a file to open (Shell32 version)

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This is exactly the same functionality as in another example using the GetOpenFileName function.

And it is achieved with less amount of more simple code, which is because of Shell32 functions being generally more friendly to developer :)

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Created: 2003-01-07 10:58:45
Modified: 2011-12-10 09:20:22
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Listed functions:

GetActiveWindow
GetFileNameFromBrowse
MultiByteToWideChar
WideCharToMultiByte

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Also in this example you can find two routines for converting strings from ANSI to Unicode and from Unicode to ANSI using MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte functions.

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name of a file to save

Save dialog box

name of a file to open

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