Hi,

I am trying to prevent the OnOpenDocument method from opening the
default directory dialog box, and instead to open my personalized
dialog box. How is that possible, short of using an OnOpenFile
menu handler?

Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Gerard

Short of nothing ... you have to put some work in here

This is the framework code:

void CWinApp::OnFileOpen()
{
 ASSERT(m_pDocManager != NULL);
 m_pDocManager->OnFileOpen();

and

void CDocManager::OnFileOpen()
{
 // prompt the user (with all document templates)
 CString newName;
 if (!DoPromptFileName(newName, AFX_IDS_OPENFILE,
   OFN_HIDEREADONLY | OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST, TRUE, NULL))
  return; // open cancelled

 AfxGetApp()->OpenDocumentFile(newName);
  // if returns NULL, the user has already been alerted

From this you can see that the only real way to do it is to handle the
message ID_FILE_OPEN in your derived application class
( available from within class wizard ) and changing

 ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_OPEN, CWinApp::OnFileOpen)

in your application's message map to

 ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_OPEN, CMyDerivedWinApp::OnFileOpen)