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[DerRaphael]

Hi All,

after doing a bit of research and torturing my brain, i finally managed to include the CommonFileOpen and Save dialogue with multiple Filter Criteria

So now, it's possible to call the FileOpen dialogue and passing multiple filter criteria to show. It supports custom dialogue title as well as autoappending an extension to the filename, when none is given and a default preset for initially shown Filter (1st, 2nd ...). Below is also a demonstration of how to use multiple file selection

USING FLAGS:
Using flags for this dialogue supposed to be as easy as possible. Look up whatever flags you want to use and simply include 'em in a list. The format including the case is rather not important as long as its a string with which you call the function. So, let's say you want to use the OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST, OFN_EXPLORER, and OFN_HIDEREADONLY flags. You might type:

[majkinetor]

If you make it compatibile in interface and documentation with CmnDlg, I can add them there, for the sake of complitenes. Then you can add it to lib and have all the system dialogs available, and properly documented. I will eventualy do Print dialog, so all will be covered.

One of the the missing features about integrated dialogs is their position, they always pop from 0,0, and that is pretty awful to solve (u must create timer just for that....). This doesn't happen with your code as it sets correctly hwnd param.
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[DerRaphael]

Thank you for your fast answer

btw, congrats to your 3000th post!

I'll check your lib and make mine fit in there.

Greets,

DerRaphael

[DerRaphael]

updated my scripts. now its working with multiple fileselections, too.
the example file also shows how to use those funktions. especially the multiselect feat. also try just providing a name withhout extension. its nice

[majkinetor]

Thx for making proper documentation. It would be also good to take care of the flags. All the flags should be listed (like you did at the end) and you should let user to write string instead some unknown numbers.

I do it this way:

[DerRaphael]

thanks, majkinetor for the inspiring feature for passing flags

well, now i think until fixes might be needed for UTF thingy, i think im done.
just updated the include file to have a parser for Attributes. works

what else should i say?

Have Fun

DerRaphael

[DerRaphael]

138+ views .. counting and no one, who writes anything ....

seems like this aint interesting no one.

[majkinetor]

[DerRaphael]

[Titan]

[freakkk]

@DerRaphael
Very useful indeed; very clean interface too. Thanks for sharing!!
Perhaps this is how it should be natively implemented...

@Titan

[Laszlo]

Very nice! I update my backup script with your code, to make it look professional.

[DerRaphael]

@Laszlo, @freakkk, @Titan, @majkinetor

Thank you guys for your interest It makes me happy that this lil' function gets at least some attention

btw: i still have a question of how this will work with Unicode. i don't have a clue on how to test this - so if someone willing to test may report or at least give some hints, it'd be really helpful.

Thanks again
derRaphael

[Laszlo]

To test Unicode:

Save a simple file from Notepad
In Explorer rename it. In the new name field enter ALT-0336 (with the numpad keys), to get a file named Ő, a Unicode char.
In your file select dialog choose it.
The message box of the test program shows the file name as “O”, not “Ő”, that is, Unicode is converted to ANSI.

To handle Unicode:

Filenames should be handled as binary (passed as ByRef).
No processing with AHK’s string functions, but with NumPut, NumGet
Use Shimanov’s Unicode print function (PhilHo adapted it, too) to show the result.

[DerRaphael]

@laszlo

big thanks, dude
I'll check my script to upgrade the function as soon as my time'll allow it

knowledge is king

greetings
derRaphael