OpenEuphoria

RE: getOpenFileName Bug???

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Aug 27, 2002
• 581 views

Hi Andreas,

Not really a bug... the problem is that the buffer for holding the 
returned file names is only 256 characters (the minumum suggested 
value).  I'll see what I can do to make this a bit more dynamic and 
submit the fix to the list.

-- Brian


Andreas wrote:
> Hello,
> on my first euphoria-project, I stumbled into a problem, which I could 
> not 
> solve. Perhaps someone on the list could help me? 
> I use Win32Lib v. 057.9 and copied following code from the manual into 
> my 
> project
> 
> ZIP_Dateien = getOpenFileName( Window1, "", { "Dialog Flags", 
> {OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT},"ZIP-Dateien", "*.ZIP", "All Files", "*.*" } )
> 
> to get multiple Files from the open-dialog. It works perfect for a small 
> 
> amount of files, eg. 15 or so. If I mark more (eg. 30), then the routine 
> 
> returns nothing (win 2000) or  some strange signs (win 98). Is this a 
> bug? 
> 
> Andreas Perband
> 
>