From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Du Yanning <duyanning@gmail.com>, jasonr@gnu.org
Cc: 13065@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13065: Bug in x-file-dialog with GetOpenFileName
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:10:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83liddr5u8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALr_ej1QA+12p__TQvKC0JPLudKai_t3JaPN9EiEk6YMbaWXww@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 19:09:49 +0800
> From: Du Yanning <duyanning@gmail.com>
>
> Platform: Windows 7
> Emacs version: 24.2.1
>
> Steps to reproduce this bug:
> emacs -Q
>
> copy and paste the next line into the *scratch* buffer:
> (x-file-dialog "hi" "c:\\")
>
> C-x C-e to evaluate it.
> The dialog appears.
>
> Type "abc" (without the enclosing double quotes) in the "File name" field.
> Click the "Desktop" icon on the left side of the dialog.
> Click the "Open" button.
> The dialog does NOT disappear while it should.
This works fine on XP. On Windows 7, I indeed see the problem, and it
seems to be related to any action in the dialog that changes the
original directory, which results in receiving in the dialog hook
procedure of the CDN_FOLDERCHANGE and CDN_SELCHANGE notifications
(which we don't handle). If you just type "abc" and click "Open", the
dialog works as expected. It also works if you do change to another
directory and select an existing file.
> I have tried GetOpenFileName/GetSaveFileName in my own Win32 programs and
> found that this behavior is casued by GetOpenFileName and GetSaveFileName
> is OK in such situation.
GetSaveFileName only works with existing files, which might explain
why it works where GetOpenFileName fails.
I tried to get this to work on Windows 7, or at least figure out why
it doesn't, but came up empty-handed. Which is not surprising, since
I know absolutely nothing about Windows GUI dialogs in general, and
this dialog in particular. It doesn't particularly help that:
a) Windows 7 deprecated this kind of dialogs and instead wants us to
use some hotshot new ones. So it could be simply a bug in the
implementation of this dialog on Windows 7.
b) We use a file selection dialog in non-standard ways, to be able to
open directories, not just files. The way we do this employs some
undocumented tricks which I don't fully understand. E.g., when
the hook gets the CDN_INITDONE notification, we access the File
Name field of the dialog, but don't do anything with it, and just
call EnableWindow. Is that really necessary, and if so, why?
c) The filter string uses some "*|*" magic in the directory filter,
which doesn't seem to be documented anywhere. What does it do?
I CC Jason, who is the author of this code, in the hope that he will
be able to give some advice. Failing that, I really don't know what
to do to fix this. Ideas and advice will be most appreciated.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-04 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-03 11:09 bug#13065: Bug in x-file-dialog with GetOpenFileName Du Yanning
2012-12-04 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-01-08 13:10 ` Jason Rumney
2013-01-08 21:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-13 12:52 ` Jason Rumney
2013-01-13 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-16 12:23 ` Jason Rumney
2013-01-16 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-22 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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