Vista - common dialog on vista

Hi,

Sorry if this has been asked a million times before, but is it at all
possible to have a vbscript open a Common Dialog in Vista, in the same
way that you could do it using CreateObject("UserAccounts.CommonDialog")
in XP? *WITHOUT* resorting to some hideous IE or Office workaround?

I read that in Vista it has been replaced with the Common Item Dialog,
but I don't see a way to conjure that up with vbscript.

regards
arno

Il giorno Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:17:07 +0100, arno <noreplyAThighiqDOTnl@xxxxxx> ha
scritto:XP also had mscomdlg.commondialog, but only if some visual language was installed. Try if
it is now provided in the standard package.


Set comDlg=CreateObject("MSComDlg.CommonDialog.1")
const cdlCancel = 32755 'Costante di errore: è stato premuto ANNULLA
const cdlOFNHideReadOnly = 4 'Nasconde la casella "sola lettura"
const cdlOFNAllowMultiselect = 512 'Permette di selezionare più files
const cdlOFNFileMustExist = 4096 'Puoi scegliere solo files esistenti
Const cdlOFNExplorer = 524288 'Finestra in stile win95
comDlg.Flags = cdlOFNHideReadOnly + cdlOFNAllowMultiselect + cdlOFNExplorer +
cdlOFNFileMustExist
comDlg.Filter = "Fotografie|*.jpg|Tutti i files|*.*|"
comDlg.DialogTitle="QuickRename2 "
comDlg.InitDir="c:\"
comDlg.maxfilesize=8000
comdlg.CancelError=true
on error resume next
'comDlg.FileName="prova.txt"
comDlg.ShowOpen
if err.number=cdlCancel then WScript.Quit
'E mostro il file scelto (se ha premuto annulla è "")
Lista=Split(comDlg.FileName,Chr(0))
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Tx for the suggestion, will give it a try

arno

In article <4963dbbc.4915250@xxxxxx>, noone@xxxxxx
says...>

Tried, will work on my system, but it is not part of the OS, so fails on
others, alas

In article <4963dbbc.4915250@xxxxxx>, noone@xxxxxx
says...>

Looking at the Microsoft docs, I don't any mention of
what DLL houses the interfaces, which is odd, but it
is COM. You'd need to find the ProgID or CLSID or
file name, then check that in an object browser to see
whether there's a dispatch interface included. If so then
script can probably use it. If not then it won't be accessible
through script. I don't know what the reason/source was
for UserAccounts.CommonDialog in XP, but that was
actually an extra. According to the MS docs, it appears
that Common Item Dialog doesn't replace that but was rather
added as part of the general Win32 API to provide dialogues
with new functionality not provided with comdlg32.dll, a
non-scriptable library that has provided all of the
open/save/print/colorpicker etc. dialogues since Win95.

Tx for the input. Considering that extensive googling hasn't yielded any
result, I take it your answer in essence means 'no' :-)

arno

In article <uL9L$EGcJHA.5976@xxxxxx>, mayaXXyana@xxxxxx
says...>