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Change Folder Default View with Common Dialog Control, Need to change folder view to thumbnail

jflowers	22 Feb, 2007 - 05:28 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 22 Feb, 2007 Posts: 2 My Contributions	I have no code to show! commondialog1.showOpen
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skyhawk133	RE: Change Folder Default View With Common Dialog Control 22 Feb, 2007 - 05:32 PM Post #2
Head DIC Head Joined: 17 Mar, 2001 Posts: 14,971 Thanked: 48 times Dream Kudos: 1650 Expert In: Web Development My Contributions	Hmmm, can you explain what you want a little clearer? We'll be happy to help, but knowing exactly what you're working with and the problem you're having will let our members better assist you.
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jstephens	RE: Change Folder Default View With Common Dialog Control 23 Feb, 2007 - 08:04 PM Post #3
D.I.C Head Joined: 7 Nov, 2005 Posts: 191 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	Is your question on how can you make it so that the dialog box when opened will defualt to thumbnail view? It so I think that is more of a windows setting than in the actuall language. But Will do some digging around to see if there is a way.
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jflowers	RE: Change Folder Default View With Common Dialog Control 24 Feb, 2007 - 04:18 AM Post #4
New D.I.C Head Joined: 22 Feb, 2007 Posts: 2 My Contributions	QUOTE(jstephens @ 23 Feb, 2007 - 09:04 PM) Is your question on how can you make it so that the dialog box when opened will defualt to thumbnail view? It so I think that is more of a windows setting than in the actuall language. But Will do some digging around to see if there is a way. Thank You. I have looked for hours on the web and all I can find is API calls which seem to work at times but become flakey when installed on other computers. jflowers
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born2c0de	RE: Change Folder Default View With Common Dialog Control 24 Feb, 2007 - 08:05 PM Post #5
printf("I'm a %XR",195936478); Joined: 26 Nov, 2004 Posts: 3,914 Thanked: 34 times Dream Kudos: 2800 Expert In: 80x86 Assembly, C/C++, VB6, VB.NET, C#, J2SE, Win32 API, Reversing My Contributions	It's not a Windows Setting. It can be done. Use the InitDir Property to set the default directory.
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