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Dec 22 2012, 6:00 pm (Edited on Oct 24 2022, 8:22 pm)

Super Saiyan X

Applies to:

everything BYOND-related

Status:

Open

Issue hasn't been assigned a status value.

I'm pretty sure I've requested this before. Like, 100% sure. I definitely recall posting an article in the topic. But...I can't find that feature request. Were old posts purged?

I realized that article is irrelevant as MFC didn't support it at the time, but...I'm sure there's an easy way to upgrade to the new style file dialogs.

Anyways,

This is something that should happen across all BYOND software.

Windows 7 file dialog

versus

Windows...XP? file dialog

srs.

Dec 22 2012, 6:16 pm
A.T.H.K	That's only a minor adjustment does it really bother you that much? I mean it's only a tree structure that's being added... [EDIT] and some pretty rounded buttons

Dec 22 2012, 6:17 pm
Super Saiyan X	Search function. Being able to type in a path. File tree.

Dec 23 2012, 12:40 pm
Bandock	Depending on what timeframe you posted it in, several feature requests and/or bug reports got purged. I know because I tried to look for an old bug report recently and have found it to be purged.

Dec 24 2012, 5:01 am
NNAAAAHH	Could've sworn I had already shown support for this. Anyway, this is welcomed in my book.

Dec 24 2012, 1:21 pm
Dj dovis	+1

Dec 24 2012, 8:16 pm
Zaoshi	I don't think that's possible. Would have to get new Windows SDK and I doubt it supports VC++6 anymore.

Dec 25 2012, 6:59 am
Blastcore	Re-program everything, k tnx. ^

Dec 25 2012, 11:24 am In response to Blastcore
A.T.H.K	Blastcore wrote: Re-program everything, k tnx. ^

Apr 25 2014, 3:02 pm
Super Saiyan X	With the new version of VS and MFC, would this be more feasible?

Apr 25 2014, 3:18 pm
Tom	Yes, I suspect it is quite easy since there are a host of improvements in the modern versions of MFC (even though MFC is mostly dead, keep in mind the "stable" BYOND is using 1998 technology).

Dec 4 2017, 4:02 pm
Super Saiyan X	please lummox

Dec 4 2017, 5:14 pm
Somepotato	https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ bb773175(v=vs.85).aspx while we're at it

Aug 24 2018, 10:47 pm

Lummox JR

Taking a fresh look at this by request, I see that from Vista onward Microsoft introduced a new API for this sort of thing called the Common Item Dialog. It'll require more research but it's something I can look at.

I remember the file dialog was a source of frustration for us for some time, so this isn't a can of worms I'm super thrilled to open but I hope it will go better than past experiences.