Re: [GD-Windows] Custom OpenFile Dialog

[Rich <leg...@xm...>]

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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