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From: "John A. Grant" <jagrant@znrcan.gc.ca>
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Subject: Re: GetSaveFileName filter problem
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 18:55:26 -0500
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Mete Ciragan wrote in message <348A81EF.24@swix.ch>...
>> ofn.lpstrFilter = "Text Files\0*.txt\0" ;
>
>Hi, try this
>ofn.lpstrFilter = "Text Files\0*.txt\0\0\0" ;
>
>the last line needs to '\0' more. For example:
>
>ofn.lpstrFilter = "Text Files\0*.txt;*.doc;*.asc\0All Files
>(*.*)\0*.*\0\0\0";
>ofn.nFilterIndex = 1;
    Yes the key is "\0\0" at the end of the string & the nFilterIndex,
    but you don't need 3 of them, just 2.

    BTW, I always take advantage of the compiler's ability to
    concatenate literals and I write these strings as:
        ofn.lpstrFilter=    "Text Files\0"    "*.txt\0"
                                "Write Files\0"    "*.wri\0"
                                "All files\0"        "*.*\0"
                                "0\";

    This is not only more readable, it allows you to see how
    the last "\0" is used to terminate the sequence of string pairs.
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