Getting rid of the four shortcuts on the left side of the Save/Open Dialog Box

What kind of Flag do I have to use to get rid of those four gray buttons on the left of the Save/Open Dialog box? They are shortcut buttons labled as, "History", "Desktop", "My Computer", and "My Network Places". I have seen other programs get rid of it, so I know it's possible. Thanks in advance, August

Something tells me that I either asked a very easy question or a very hard question.

Which one is it?

Um,
It's called not bumping your own threads

Exactly what do you mean by "bumping your own threads"?
I don't understand it, nor have I ever heard of it.

I think what I am refering to is called a Placebar.

Normally, this would be the part where I post a very convenient link into MSDN.

gg

I seached MSDN and Google, I didn't find anything.

it should be enough if you add a value NoPlacesBar to this key...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Comdlg32

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Exactly what do you mean by "bumping your own threads"?
I don't understand it, nor have I ever heard of it.

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Then obviously, nor have you read the forum rules.

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/annou...ouncementid=51

Bumping your own threads means posting in a thread just to 'bump' it back up to the top of the list. Considering the number of pointless posts you've put in your own thread at fairly regular intervals, I would say you've been bumping, and seriously, stop it.

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Originally Posted by Stoned_Coder

it should be enough if you add a value NoPlacesBar to this key...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Comdlg32

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I believe that's a global setting. There is a couple of instance specific options:

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#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#pragma comment(lib, "comdlg32.lib")

/*
 * Control, with places bar.
 */
BOOL DoFileOpen(HWND hwnd, LPTSTR szFile, DWORD cchFile)
{
        OPENFILENAME ofn = { 0 };

        if (cchFile != 0)
        {
                szFile[0] = TEXT('\0');
        }

        ofn.lStructSize    = OPENFILENAME_SIZE_VERSION_400;
        ofn.hwndOwner      = hwnd;
        ofn.lpstrFilter    = TEXT("All Files (*.*)\0*.*\0");
        ofn.lpstrFile      = szFile;
        ofn.nMaxFile      = cchFile;
        ofn.Flags          = OFN_EXPLORER | OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST;
        ofn.lpstrDefExt    = NULL;

        return GetOpenFileName(&ofn);
}


/*
 * No places bar, should work on all versions of Windows.
 */
BOOL DoFileOpenNoPlaces1(HWND hwnd, LPTSTR szFile, DWORD cchFile)
{
        OPENFILENAME ofn = { 0 };

        if (cchFile != 0)
        {
                szFile[0] = TEXT('\0');
        }

        ofn.lStructSize    = OPENFILENAME_SIZE_VERSION_400;
        ofn.hwndOwner      = hwnd;
        ofn.lpstrFilter    = TEXT("All Files (*.*)\0*.*\0");
        ofn.lpstrFile      = szFile;
        ofn.nMaxFile      = cchFile;
        ofn.Flags          = OFN_EXPLORER | OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST | OFN_ENABLEHOOK;
        ofn.lpstrDefExt    = NULL;

        return GetOpenFileName(&ofn);
}


/*
 * No places bar, will only work on 2000/XP
 */
BOOL DoFileOpenNoPlaces2(HWND hwnd, LPTSTR szFile, DWORD cchFile)
{
        OPENFILENAME ofn = { 0 };

        if (cchFile != 0)
        {
                szFile[0] = TEXT('\0');
        }

        ofn.lStructSize    = sizeof(OPENFILENAME);
        ofn.hwndOwner      = hwnd;
        ofn.lpstrFilter    = TEXT("All Files (*.*)\0*.*\0");
        ofn.lpstrFile      = szFile;
        ofn.nMaxFile      = cchFile;
        ofn.Flags          = OFN_EXPLORER | OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST;
        ofn.lpstrDefExt    = NULL;
        ofn.FlagsEx        = OFN_EX_NOPLACESBAR;

        return GetOpenFileName(&ofn);
}


int main(void)
{
        TCHAR szFileName[MAX_PATH];

        DoFileOpen(NULL, szFileName, MAX_PATH);
        printf("File = %s\n", szFileName);

        DoFileOpenNoPlaces1(NULL, szFileName, MAX_PATH);
        printf("File = %s\n", szFileName);

        DoFileOpenNoPlaces2(NULL, szFileName, MAX_PATH);
        printf("File = %s\n", szFileName);

        getchar();
        return 0;
}

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I took the lazy way out as OP wasnt specific about it only affecting his app.

anonytmouse, you script gave me tons of errors.

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Originally Posted by Cool-August

anonytmouse, you script gave me tons of errors.

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Posting those errors might be useful. Also state which compiler you're using.

It would take to long to post all of them, I am using Dev-C++