Hi Valentin

Thanks for the reply and I hope you'll be seriously bored at some
point:) 

I have cXtraDialogs and I did ask cXtra people could it be done but as
with most of their support they were a bit dry about it and simply said
"no" :)))

I was messing around yesterday trying to send key strokes and I've
"almost" succeded, but I couldn't send the "WINPOPUP" stroke (the button
next to "Alt GR") because the dialog gets modal although it can receive
a sequence of TABs before it's initialised!? 
(the sequence should be: 6xTAB, WINPOPUP,arrow down, arrow right, 5x
arrow down, enter)..or something like that...with the standard
explorer(My Computer) it's simply (ALT+v,ALT+h) but unfortunately not
with the Open dialog...damn

Ah well...if you do get around to make the dialog with the thumbnail
feature let me know and feel free to put some price on it!:))

Thanks a lot

Pedja

P.s. here is a bigger chalenge for you.. can you make it so it can be
embeded in MD :)))))
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Valentin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 04 January 2005 01:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lingo programming discussion list
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> OpenFile dialog in thumbnail mode


Hi Pedja,

I don't think that any xtra that I know of has this feature. Most
options gives you cXtraDialogs
http://www.cxtra.net/site4/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=50
It also has a special dialog ( OpenPictureDlg /  OpenPictureDlgEx ) with
an image preview of selected images.

But I think the feature you ask for could theoretically be implemented,
the Windows API functions GetOpenFileName()/ GetSaveFileName, that such
dialogs are based on, offer a lot of advanced features/options. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/w
inui/windowsuserinterface/userinput/commondialogboxlibrary/aboutcommondi
alogboxes/openandsaveasdialogboxes.asp

Maybe writing such an "ultimate, highly configurable
OpenFileDialog-Xtra" would be a nice exercise for the next time I'm
bored... ;-)

Valentin



Pedja wrote:
> Hi list
>
> Any ideas how to start a File Open dialog in thumbnail mode (in 
> Windows)...tried everything with every xtra I have, googled around and

> can't find any reference anywhere... It's not a really important issue

> but it's been bugging me for years and
> I thought to give it a go now..and obviously...I've failed :(
>
> Cheers
>
> Pedja





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