Cheers for that. Finally got to sit down and try it and it works like a
charm, although I haven't got any actually functionality going, just a stub
function, but the extra controls are drawn so it should be plane(ish)
sailing from there.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich" <leg...@xm...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] Custom OpenFile Dialog
>
> In article <007301c277cd$339b4510$1402a8c0@paul1>,
> "Paul Crowder" <pa...@pa...> writes:
>
> > Reading through the msdn docs, it would appear it is possible to create
a
> > customised OpenFile dialog, as used by GetOpenFileName and
GetSaveFileName.
> > For example, a dialog that contains some sort of preview pane, or extra
> > options on what to do when loading a file. While it would appear
possible,
> > little direction is really given, so before I start feeling around in
the
> > dark recesses of the win32 API I was wondering if anyone else has any
> > experience with this or knows of any examples? The OFNHookProc appears
to
> > be the way in and it looks as though you have to create a dialog
template of
> > some sort, but should this be a full open/save dialog box or just the
extra
> > controls you want?
>
> Customizing any of the common dialogs is pretty simple once you have a
> working template. I have a template in my sample code where I modify
> the common color chooser dialog to include a box for entering the
> alpha value for a color. Download this sample
> <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/snippets/index.html#6> and
> take a look at colorsel.h and colorsel.cpp for the implementation and
> winmain.rc for the resource templates you will need for customizing
> the color dialog.
>
> I got this from MSDN docs under Platform SDK / User Interface Services /
> Windows User Interface / User Input / Common Dialog Box Library /
> About Common Dialog Boxes / Customizing Common Dialog Boxes.
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