Re: OpenDialog

Stark wrote:
I want my user to choose a file in a folder among those staring with some characters in their name. I do this using the filter property. This does not avoid the user entering a totally different filename in the filename edit. How can I avoid this ? Can I disable the filename edit ? Or is there another solution ?

You could just validate the user's choice of filename after they close the dialog.

Or if the user can choose files only from a certain folder as well, there's no point in giving them the full functionality of an open dialog. Create your own dialog, plonk a TFileListBox on it, and set the mask and directory of it.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
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