CMFCEditBrowseCtrl issue

[David Crow]

I've got a dialog app that uses several CMFCEditBrowseCtrl controls. For each, I've called the EnableFileBrowseButton() method. The issue I'm having is that I want to set an initial directory depending on which control is used. This is similar to the lpstrInitialDir member of OPENFILENAME. The problem is that CMFCEditBrowseCtrl has no such functionality. I tried deriving my own class from CMFCEditBrowseCtrl, overriding the OnBrowse() method, and calling SetCurrentDirectory() before calling the base class version. No luck. Yes, the CWD is indeed changed, but that is not what the internals of OnBrowse() is using. Each time the browse button is clicked, the initial directory is whatever was previously used. Thinking it may be storing something in the registry, I created a very oddly-named directory, ran the program, selected several of the browse buttons (each time opening to that oddly-named directory), and then exited. Searching the entire registry for that directory name came up empty. Any idea(s) as to what may be going on? <edit> Drilling down a bit further, the issue is with the CFileDialog object that OnBrowse() creates and how it uses OPENFILENAME. The solution was to simply copy the OnBrowse() code into my overridden version, and assign a value to dlg.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir before DoModal() is called. </edit> Thanks. DC

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