Re: OpenDialog

And typing wahtever you want cannot be avoided, I think. I would like to give the user less opportunity to make mistakes, forcing him to choose among the valid datasets only...

"Rob Kennedy" <me3@xxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio news:6m1vuvFeo0opU2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Stark schrieb:

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 ?

This is what ofFileMustExist in the dialog options does for you.

That only means the file must exist. It doesn't say the file must match a certain pattern. You're always free to type the name of whatever file you want.

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Rob

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