ID Number: Q80935
1.00
WINDOWS
Summary:
The pipe character (|), which is placed at the end of each selection in
the Filter property of the Common Dialog custom control, is optional
on the last item in the string.
This information applies to the Common Dialog custom control supplied
with Microsoft Professional Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Basic
programming system version 1.0 for Windows.
More Information:
Filter is a property of the Common Dialog custom control
(COMMDLG.DLL). This Filter property is assigned a string that contains
sets of "description" and "filter". Each set represents one entry in
the List Files of Type list box.
Each of these items in the string are followed by a pipe character
(|). The last item in the list need not be followed by a pipe,
although it is allowed.
The syntax for the usage of the Filter property is as follows:
CommonDialog.Filter[= desc1$|filter1$|desc2$|filter2$]
Either of the following code examples will work:
CMDialog1.Filter = "Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt"
-or-
CMDialog1.Filter = "Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt|"
The Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Toolkit documentation uses
both of these methods in its code examples.
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