Open file dialog.

[Elsje]

Hi,

I use a openfile dialog in my program.
When I open this I fill up the initialdirectory.
I would like to know if there is a possibilty to prevent the user from changing the directory. The need to choose a file in the directory that I have specified in the the property initialdirectory.

Thanks in advance.

 

[TipGiver]

I dont think this is possible, this is not the purpose of that dialog. I can see 2 ways:

1. When he selects a file, check if the file belongs to the initialdirectory. Not of course with the File.Exists(..) method but by string comparing the to FULL path of the fileopendialog.filename with the initialdirectory & filename. Only a few lines of code are needed.

2. Create you own dialog. A form with a listbox for example. Using the IO package methods, get the files [Dim di As New IO.DirectoryInfo(path)] and add them to the listbox, so he cant choose other than these files of you "initial directory