> In my SDI app I wanted an Open File dialog to open in a specific
> directory so I:

> 1) remmed out my App's ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_OPEN, CWinApp::OnFileOpen)
> from its message map
> 2) Created a new message handler for OnFileOpen under the App class
> 3) In the new OnFileOpen handler:
> a) I instantiate a CFileDialog object, dlg, define its intial
> directory path using the "dlg.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir" member
> b) and, finally, call CWinApp::OpenDocumentFile(dlg.GetPathName())
> when DoModal()== IDOK

> Everything seems to work ok. But I'm not absolutely confident about
> the above methods used.

> Is this procedure the correct way to customize the Open File Dialog?

> Thanks for any help.

> Graham

>> In my SDI app I wanted an Open File dialog to open in a specific
>> directory so I:

>> 1) remmed out my App's ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_OPEN, CWinApp::OnFileOpen)
>> from its message map
>> 2) Created a new message handler for OnFileOpen under the App class
>> 3) In the new OnFileOpen handler:
>> a) I instantiate a CFileDialog object, dlg, define its intial
>> directory path using the "dlg.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir" member
>> b) and, finally, call CWinApp::OpenDocumentFile(dlg.GetPathName())
>> when DoModal()== IDOK

>> Everything seems to work ok. But I'm not absolutely confident about
>> the above methods used.

>> Is this procedure the correct way to customize the Open File Dialog?

>> Thanks for any help.

>> Graham

>Exactly right.

>--
>Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]