The Common Dialog Box Library contains a set of dialog boxes for performing common application tasks, such as opening files, choosing color values, and printing documents.
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Color of SYSLINK controls in themed application
I need to know what the actual color of the Windows SYSLINK controls is, because I need to draw some other elements that should have exactly that same color.
For the moment I use GetSysColor(COLOR_HOTLIGHT) which is the correct color, but is this…

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Common Font Dialog (comdlg32.ocx) not working on Windows 7 calling from JavaScript in IE
I tried the font dialog in VB6 with a form app and it could launch font dialog, but when I tried to do the same in javascript, it failed with exception:
Could not complete the operation due to error 800a8000
at line calling ShowFont().
Here is my…

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GetOpenFileName with SDL2
I wrote a c++ app using SDL2 to simulate an editBox. It worked ok untill i added a function to open and select a file on Windows explorer.
Precisely after i click "Open" on the file browser, i can not use TTF_OpenFont() anymore...
I am still able to…

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Mingw64 not linking due to undefined references
I started to learn mingw64 and tried to compile this cpp file using netbeans 8.0.1
What I need to see is the dialog of printing of windows and to print the text "Hola mundo".
#include
#include
#include
void…

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Is there something like CDN_FILECANCEL analogous to CDN_FILEOK for getting when the user chooses Cancel in GetOpenFileName()?
For cross-platform parity reasons, my GetOpenFileName() specifies no owner and I explicitly disable all toplevel windows myself. The problem is re-enabling. In order to re-enable these windows correctly, I need to re-enable them before the dialog…

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Close Find/Replace Dialog programmatically
How do I close the Windows Find and Replace dialog boxes programmatically ensuring the FINDMSGSTRING message is sent so I can get the settings to save them? DestroyWindow does not send the message.

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