Extending OpenFileDialog to add a picture preview?

[Michael A. Covington]

How easy is it to extend OpenFileDialog so that when a file is selected
(clicked), my code will be called to extract some information from the file
and display a picture?

 

[Sean Chambers]

You could use the FileOk event of the OFD control. Then read the OFD
..FileName property. That would give you a path.

I'm sure there is a dozen other ways to do it, but this is how I would
probably accomplish that.

hope it helps!

Sean

 

[Michael A. Covington]

But FileOk occurs when the user clicks Open or Save, at which time he's
through with the dialog altogether. I would like to call up the preview
picture when the user clicks once on any file.

 

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello Michael,

Look at this one http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/FileDialogExtender.asp

MC> How easy is it to extend OpenFileDialog so that when a file is
MC> selected (clicked), my code will be called to extract some
MC> information from the file and display a picture?
MC>
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