OK, here it comes, the ultimate bugfix for the FileCtrl.SelectDirectory function. 😉 I blogged about it before: The SelectDirectory function in Delphi's FileCtrl unit has several bugs. My first approach on fixing these, while working, was ugly because the user could see that the dialog position changed after it was shown initially at a different … Continue reading The ultimate bugfix for SelectDirectory →

In my last blog post I wrote My bugfix isn’t pretty, I must admit. It just defers these changes until the dialog is fully visible. This has the disadvantage the the user will see it popping up at the wrong place first before its position is corrected and the selected directory becomes visible. David Millington … Continue reading Fixing the SelectDirectory fix →

The Delphi VCL comes with several overloaded SelectDirectory functions declared in FileCtrl, one of which uses the ShBrowseForFolder Windows API function. It passes a callback function which tries to do the following: Position the dialog on the monitor on which the application's main form is shown. Center the dialog on that monitor Select the given … Continue reading Fixing the SelectDirectory function →