open/save filedialog woes

[Pat Richey]

i'm trying to make an open and a save file dialog that allows you to open/save
various formats, but when you change the extension you want to filter the file
list disappears [1] until you leave the current directory. here's the code
for the save box:

SaveFileDialog sfd = new SaveFileDialog( );
sfd.Filter = "Portable Document Format (*.pdf)|*.pdf"
+ "|Encapsula ted Postscript (*.eps)|*.eps"
+ "|Bitmap (*.bmp)|*.bmp"
+ "|JPEG (*.jpeg;*.jpg)| *.jpeg;*.jpg"
+ "|GIF (*.gif)|*.gif"
+ "|PNG (*.png)|*.png";

if(sfd.ShowDial og() == DialogResult.OK )
{
// do stuff
}

the open dialog is very similar. anyone know what's going on?

thanks,
pat
[1] - here is an example (the current directory contains 2 files, test1.pdf
and test2.eps).

(Filter = *.pdf), dialog shows test1.pdf
(change filter to *.eps), dialog shows no files
(go up a directory and come back), dialog shows test2.eps
(change filter to *.pdf), dialog shows no files
(go up a directory and come back), dialog shows test1.pdf

[Shakir Hussain]

Pat,

I tried your code. It works fine. Can you give a sample with the case and
mail it to sh***********@y ahoo.com? I will investigate that.

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i'm trying to make an open and a save file dialog that allows you to open/save various formats, but when you change the extension you want to filter the file list disappears [1] until you leave the current directory. here's the code for the save box:

SaveFileDialog sfd = new SaveFileDialog( );
sfd.Filter = "Portable Document Format (*.pdf)|*.pdf"
+ "|Encapsula ted Postscript (*.eps)|*.eps"
+ "|Bitmap (*.bmp)|*.bmp"
+ "|JPEG (*.jpeg;*.jpg)| *.jpeg;*.jpg"
+ "|GIF (*.gif)|*.gif"
+ "|PNG (*.png)|*.png";

if(sfd.ShowDial og() == DialogResult.OK )
{
// do stuff
}

the open dialog is very similar. anyone know what's going on?

thanks,
pat
[1] - here is an example (the current directory contains 2 files, test1.pdf and test2.eps).

(Filter = *.pdf), dialog shows test1.pdf
(change filter to *.eps), dialog shows no files
(go up a directory and come back), dialog shows test2.eps
(change filter to *.pdf), dialog shows no files
(go up a directory and come back), dialog shows test1.pdf

[Pat Richey]

Pat Richey wrote:

i'm trying to make an open and a save file dialog that allows you to
open/save various formats, but when you change the extension you want to
filter the file list disappears until you leave the current
directory. here's the code for the save box:

figured it out - somehow the [STAThread] tag got removed from Main() -
replacing it fixed this problem (and several others).