GetOpenFileName problem

[Chris Miller]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:06:42 -0500, Trass3r <mrmocool at web.de> wrote:

> Got another problem now. GetOpenFileName fails with error code 2  
> (Initialization error)
> Can't figure out why it fails:
>
> 		string filter="DK2 string files(*.str)\0*.str\0\0";
> 		string filename;
> 		filename.length=400;
> 		OPENFILENAME ofn;
> 		memset(&ofn,0,ofn.sizeof);
> 		ofn.lStructSize=OPENFILENAME.sizeof;
> 		ofn.hwndOwner=null;
> 		ofn.lpstrFilter=filter.ptr;
> 		ofn.lpstrCustomFilter=null;
> 		ofn.lpstrFile=filename.ptr;
> 		ofn.nMaxFile=filename.length;
> 		
> 		if (!GetOpenFileNameA(&ofn))
> 		{
> 			debug msgBox("CommDlgError:  
> "~std.string.toString(CommDlgExtendedError()));
> 			return;
> 		}
>
> Maybe because of hwndOwner? But I don't know how to get the hwnd in DFL.

Controls and Forms have a handle property to get the HWND, but why not  
just use DFL's OpenFileDialog:  
http://wiki.dprogramming.com/DflDoc/Filedialog - it wraps all this messy  
winapi into a nice class.