From: Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2010-02-19T00:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Can SWIN CommonDialog.openFilename() select multiple files?

On Feb 17, 2:44 pm, Alex DeCaria <alex.deca...@millersville.edu>
wrote:
> Chris Hulan wrote:
> > I followed the instructions in install.txt and it Just Worked!
>
> > Well the compile threw a bunch of warnings and the ended with a
> > message
> > about an error... but I was able to run the code for the dialog so I
> > think you
> > can ignore that
>
> > cheers
>
> Chris:
>
> SUCCESS!  I installed Ruby 1.9 and vrswin090207, and your code works as
> advertised.  Apparently it can't be done with Ruby 1.8 and/or the older
> version of vrswin.
>
> One final question.  Do you know how I can have the FileDialog open to a
> predetermined directory, instead of the directory where the program is
> started?  That's the last key to my puzzle.  I tried using a
> Dir.chdir(mydirectory), but that didn't seem to work.
>
> --Alex
> --
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Lookig at the swin code I think the 6th argument is the initial dir,
so try this:
SWin::CommonDialog::openFilename( nil, filetype_filter,
OFN_EXPLORER|OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT, 'Choose one or more files.',nil,"C:\
\some\\path")