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Is there any way to call the windows OpenFileDialog() from un-managed Visual Cobol under windows?

Thanks in advance for any help.


#VisualCOBOL

Is there any way to call the windows OpenFileDialog() from un-managed Visual Cobol under windows?

Thanks in advance for any help.


#VisualCOBOL

It might be possible to call a managed COBOL program that invokes the methods of this class.
You would call the managed code thru COMInterop but this is not really a straightforward venture.

In what manner do you wish to use this class?
Do you just wish to simply display a dialog and then return the selected filename to the program?

If this is true then you could do this using the native win32 api GetOpenFileName instead.

It might be possible to call a managed COBOL program that invokes the methods of this class.
You would call the managed code thru COMInterop but this is not really a straightforward venture.

In what manner do you wish to use this class?
Do you just wish to simply display a dialog and then return the selected filename to the program?

If this is true then you could do this using the native win32 api GetOpenFileName instead.

Thank you for your reply.

win32 GetOpenFileName would be perfect.
Is there an example/documentation of how to implement this anywhere?

Thanks again

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