[Qt-interest] Problem about QFileDialog::getOpenFileName() style

[Steven Doerfler]

On 2/24/2010 5:57 AM, Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch wrote:
> ?? wrote on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:25 AM:
>   
>> ...
>> I use QFileDialog::getOpenFileName() to open a file chooser. I read
>> the document that this static function will invoke native dialog on
>> Windows. I run it on Windows XP, but the style of this dialog is not
>> XP theme. It is just like Windows 98.
>>     
> Hmmm, you are right: in my application I do get the "native" dialog (with the "Last used", "Desktop" etc. icons on the left), but it indeed looks a bit different (really more like the "Windows 2000 look") than the "File open" dialog I get from the Notepad application for example, see attached screenshot. And the rest of my application *does* "look like Windows XP" (so I am using the Windows XP Qt style).
>   

I think Windows programs get the old style of dialog unless they use a
manifest to specify that they want version 6 of the common controls, not
the default of version 5.

For instance, say your program is named example.exe.  Create a simple
XML file named example.com.manifest in the same directory with contents
as shown here
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wwtazz9d%28VS.71%29.aspx>. 
Then your program should get the newer style of dialog.

You can also embed the manifest data in an .exe file using the Windows
SDK tool mt.exe
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa375649%28VS.85%29.aspx> but
watch out for a bug in some mt.exe versions
<http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=921337>.

Steven

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