Peter,
You might have to subclass the dialog - ie., trap the WM_XXX messages and
physically change the contents of the textbox. Ugly, but not impossible.
Regards,
Dennis.
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> Sent: Tuesday, 21 December 1999 10:13
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> Subject: [DUG]: TSaveDialog
>
>
> Hi there,
> We have an app which uses TSaveDialog to specify the
> filename to save-and-convert. With the dialog open, when the
> user changes the filter type (specifying a different image
> type/extension), we want the filename shown to grow a different
> extension.
>
> That is, say it says XXX.BMP and the user selects "JPEG" from
> the filter list. We want the filename to change to XXX.JPG
> programmatically.
>
> We can't find a way to make the dialog do that by itself, and we
> can't alter the Filename property programmatically either (that's
> spec, according to the D4 help). Yet I've seen the right behaviour
> in other apps. Did they rewrite the control from scratch or have
> we missed something easy?
>
>
> cheers,
> peter
>
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