I have specified in my "Open" CFileDialog to show only jpg and bmp files. But how to prevent from showing shortcuts to jpg or bmp files that are in other directories?

Thanks a lot! It works great, but another problem is rising - if the selected files are too many (or the string in the "file name" edit control is too long) - nothing happens - i tried to change some of the members of the OPENFILENAME Structure, but with no result. Is it possible to make the "file name" edit control to accept longer strings and how?

I have enabled multiple file selection in an Open-a-File dialog. Please tell me how to obtain (a list of) all the selected files in this Open-a-file dialog and fill CListBox control with them.

It doesn't work man:-( In that order only second file is played, but not the first!

I need to play two *.WAV files at the same time in my application - as in solitaire games - the first file is the background music and second sound file is played when the cards are moved (or similar events). Any idea how to do this? I'm trying with PlaySound() and a new thread, but nothing is happenning - maybe I can't set the flags properly or there is something else?

How to determine whether a nontopmost window is at the top of all nontopmost windows?

Let's say my application has a pointer to a CDialog derived class and I create some modeless dialogs.(More than one!). My question is how to destroy all of them - myPointer->DestroyWindow() - for the last created one and after that how to redirect the pointer to the rest of the dialogs in order to destroy all of them?

OK, thanks! But I was trying to avoid using GetDlgItem and SetWindowText functions. What I was asking was is it possible to load the default values (caption, size and so on)as they are defined in the *.rc file? Let's say the captions of some button or static controls have been changed (using 'SetWindowText'). Is it possible at runtime to restore the original values as they are defined in the *.rc-file? I mean to load them directly from this file? I can't get Petzold's book and that's why I'm asking here. By the way, is it available somewhere on the net as eBook? Greetings -J.

In case that some of the buttons' captions (or other resources)of a dialog application have been changed - is it possible at runtime to set all the resources to their original names/values? I tried with AfxSetResourceHandle(), but nothing happened. Any suggestions how to do this? Thanks.

O, really? Thanks!:-D:-D It's my mistake I didn't ask the right question - what I meant was how one application can terminate another one.

:-))Sorry, I missed some words in my question - I meant how one application can terminate another one...

Which is the simplest way to terminate a dialog-based application?

Is it possible to restart my dialog application from within or should I create an outside object to close it and then to start it again?

How to obtain the original length and height of a window (as they were defined in the the resource file) or is there a function which restores the window to it's original size?

Let's say the user didn't click the OK-button (or any other button) of the MessageBox dialog. Is there a way to define that MessageBox dialog is still running? Or let's put in another way - for some reasons I need to show my application above all the other non-topmost windows, but I can't do this when the MessageBox/AfxMessageBox dialog is running - for example when the user didn't click on the OK button of the MessageBox dialog and has activated another application. What shall I do in order to show my application and the unclosed MessageBox dialog? Is there a way to define that MessageBox dialog is still running? Or is it possible to create a pointer to it? And what about AfxMessageBox dialog - can I create a pointer to this dialog?

How to show my dialog application (when restoring it from the system tray) above all non topmost windows?

How to add an item to desktop's context menu or is there an article to read about this?

How to restore (maximize) my application instead of running a new instance when another instance is already running?

Which is the most efficient way to restart my dialog box application, I mean to close the application and to start it again immediately after that.

Please tell me how to rename the "OK" and "Cancel" button in a property sheet dialog and also how to rename the property pages in the sheet.