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Hello!

I noticed that as of PureBasic 6.03 PathRequester() still uses the old "Open Folder" dialog, even though there is a new and much more user-friendly dialog available since Windows Vista. This new dialog looks like the dialog used by OpenFileRequester() and SaveFileRequester().
As far as I know, this new dialog is available through the IFileDialog interface, but I couldn't try it out myself because I don't know how to use COM in PureBasic.

If possible, please change PathRequester() to use the new dialog on Windows!

Apparently it is necessary to call IFileDialog::SetOptions() and add FOS_PICKFOLDERS to the options in order to switch IFileDialog into folder selection mode. But again, I haven't tried this myself.

Some (hopefully helpful) documentation on this topic:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... ile-dialog
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... filedialog
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... setoptions
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... logoptions

Thanks,
Nils

+1

maybe you should look at this.
Select folder dialog

Axolotl wrote: Tue Nov 07, 2023 3:42 pm maybe you should look at this.
Select folder dialog

Thanks! I will check this out.

However, I still think that PathRequester() should be updated, given that the new dialog was introduced 17 years ago.