You could always use the API control and set up a hook, and when the message
indicating a selection change was made, update the textbox to reflect that
name. IOW, if the user is silly enough to re-click the listview after
providing a custom filename, they lose their customization.
I suggest you get over looking for a 'fix' to this 'bug' ... it ain't going
to happen. This is a windows common dialog issue, not a VB issue.
--
Randy Birch
MS MVP Visual Basic
http://vbnet.mvps.org/
"S.W. Rasmussen" <sw*@seqtools.d k> wrote in message
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: "Steve Gerrard" <my********@com cast.net> wrote in message
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: >
: > "S.W. Rasmussen" <sw*@seqtools.d k> wrote in message
: > news:41******** *************@d read16.news.tel e.dk...
: > | With the risk of being accused of multi-posting I would like to draw
: > the
: > | attention to a serious visual basic/windows issue discussed in the
: > | microsoft.publi c.vb.bugs newsgroup. As pointed out below by Norman
: > Diamond
: > | the bug may result in loss of data when saving files with the standard
: > | common dialog control.
: > |
: > | Norman Diamond describes the problem as follows:
: > |
: > | ----------
: > | In VB6 SP6, VB6 SP5, and possibly others, the common dialog box
: > sometimes
: > | returns a different filename from the name that is displayed on the
: > filename
: > | line.
: > |
: > | Write a small program that opens a common dialog box for saving a
: > file.
: > | When executed, the dialog box shows a list of files presently existing
: > in
: > | the
: > | directory. Do a single click on one filename and the filename is
: > | automatically copied to the filename line in the dialog box. Edit the
: > name
: > | on the filename line to a nonexistent file, as if you want to save a
: > new
: > | file
: > | with a slightly different name instead of overwriting the existing
: > file.
: > |
: > | Now, if you don't want to see the bug occur, then click immediately on
: > the
: > | Save button.
: > |
: > | But if you do want to see the bug occur, for example if your customer
: > | complains that your program overwrote their valuable data and you need
: > to
: > | prove whose fault it is, then you do the following instead. After
: > slightly
: > | editing the name in the filename line, click a blank spot inside the
: > list of
: > | filenames in the main part of the common dialog box. This wasted
: > click does
: > | not select a file. The name shown on the filename line remains as you
: > | edited
: > | it, it does not automatically change. Then click on the Save button.
: > The
: > | common dialog control returns to your program a filename of an
: > existing file
: > | instead of the new name that you put on the filename line. Your
: > program
: > | will
: > | destroy your customer's existing data.
: > |
: > | My boss just did similar tests with Microsoft Word, Excel, and other
: > | applications. They do not have this bug. Only VB programs get hit by
: > this
: > | bug.
: > | ----------
: > |
: > | I have not been able to find any solution/work-around to this problem.
: > |
: > | Soeren
: > |
www.seqtools.dk
: > |
: > |
: >
: > I would think that setting the flag cdlOFNOverwrite Prompt, which brings
: > up a confirmation for any file overwrite, would suffice.
: >
: > I reproduced this behavior, using VB6 SP4, with Common Dialog SP3. With
: > the flag set, it prompts for overwrite confirmation, showing the last
: > selected existing file name.
: >
: >
:
: Even with the overwrite warning enabled it is highly misleading - and very
: bad programming practice - to save the file with a title different from
that
: displayed in the title text field of the dialogbox. In my experience
: warnings tend to be OK'ed without being read / understood... Especially in
: this case where the content of the warning is quite unexpected to the
user.
:
: I am surprised that this bug has survived for such a long time - and that
it
: cannot be easily corrected having Steve McMahon's source code at hand:
:
:
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB...ct/article.asp
:
: Soeren
:
www.seqtools.dk
:
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