Multi-select file dialog

[Dan203]

OK I'm having a strange problem with a CFile dialog which allows multiple selections. It's an open dialog. And when the user selects multiple files I use this code to enumerate the files and add their paths to a list control...

POSITION pos = openDlg.GetStartPosition();
while(pos)
{
	CString	pathName = openDlg.GetNextPathName(pos);
	m_cSourceFiles.AddString(pathName);
}

the weird part is that when I select multiple files from the root of a drive the path will have two slashes in front of the file name like so...

F:\\Test.txt

If I select a file from a sub directory it works fine.

I know I can do a simple find and replace to fix it, but why is it doing this in the first place? Is this a bug in the CFileDialog code? Or something I'm doing wrong. Can anyone else able to reproduce this?

Thanks,
Dan

P.S. If it matters I'm using VS2005

[ProgramArtist]

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P.S. If it matters I'm using VS2005

It would be more interesting which OS (Windows) version are you using?

[cilu]

Yes, I get that too in Windows 7, but I don't know why it is like that.

[OReubens]

pathName.Replace("\\\\", "\\");

the problem with that is that it'll also replace the double backslash at the start of an UNC filename. So it needs to be a bit more than just that.

[Marc G]

In previous versions of Windows, using those double slashes with other Win32 API functions was not a problem. However, in Windows 7, using double slashes with certain functions will not work, so you will have to normalize your path somehow to get rid of those double slashes, except of course the double slash at the beginning of UNC names like OReubens mentioned.

[Dan203]

My machine is Win7 but I had some customers complain about this happening in XP as well.

I used...

pathName.Replace(":\\\\", ":\\");

to fix it, that way it'll only get drive paths and not UNC paths. I'm just glad to hear this is a universal problem and not something weird with my app.

Dan