Thread: 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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

Code:

#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;
}

anonytmouse, you script gave me tons of errors.

Originally Posted by Cool-August

anonytmouse, you script gave me tons of errors.

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++