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[beardboy]

To have the Dialog box appear in the center of the screen like MsgBox, but have the option to position the window like you added for InputBox.

thanks,
beardboy

[Chris]

If all goes well, there will be at least one way to accomplish this in the next release:

GosubTimer, MoveDialog, 10 ; Autorun this subroutine every 10ms
FileSelectFile, SelectedFile
MsgBox, The user selected %SelectedFile%.
return

MoveDialog:
; System sometimes takes a while to display it, so keep trying:
IfWinNotExist, Select File - %A_SCRIPTNAME%, , return
; Otherwise:
GosubTimer, MoveDialog, Off ; Disable the timer.
WinMove, 0, 0 ; Move the "last found window" to upper-left.
return

Though admittedly adding some new position parameters to FileSelectFile (and perhaps MsgBox and FileSelectFolder) would make this easier to script. However, there's a trade-off since new parameters make the commands appear more complicated and cluttered in the documentation, so I'm on the fence (given how rarely these params would be used).

[beardboy]

I always forget of other features that could make what I wanted possible. I can just WinMove the window to the place I want it.

thanks,
beardboy

[Chris]

That's a tempting thing to try, but it won't work unless you assign a hotkey to do the "moving" step separately. This is because the script's thread is stuck in the FileSelectFile command until the user makes a selection.

This same concept is what makes coding the move in C++ non-trivial. Fortunately, I think the framework is already there in this case.

[Chris]

If you haven't already found a way to do this, I think a timer can get it done like this: