CFileDialog mulitple selection limit - is there a workaround ?

[Mike Pliam]

In my attempt to capture multiple files using CFileDialog I discovered that there is a limit on the number of characters in the file name buffer. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179372

I have used this code to get the file names and it works fine up to the point where the buffer is full. NB: m_vcsPathnames and m_vcsFilenames are std::vector<CString> types.

	// get  a list of the files to process
	wchar_t szFilters[]= _T("All Files (*.*)|*.*||");

	// Create an Open dialog; the default file name extension "*.*"
	CFileDialog fileDlg(TRUE, _T(""), _T("*.*"),
      OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST| OFN_HIDEREADONLY | OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT, szFilters, this);
	
	m_vcsPathnames.resize(0);
	m_vcsFilenames.resize(0);

	if( fileDlg.DoModal ()==IDOK )
	{
		POSITION pos (fileDlg.GetStartPosition() ); 
		while( pos )
		{
			CString csPathname( fileDlg.GetNextPathName( pos ) );  
			int n = csPathname.ReverseFind('\\');
			CString csFilename = csPathname.Right(csPathname.GetLength() - n - 1);   TRACE0("csFilename =: "); OutputDebugString(csFilename); TRACE0("\n");
			m_vcsPathnames.push_back(csPathname);
			m_vcsFilenames.push_back(csFilename);
		}

	}

I really need to be able to capture very large numbers of files. Is there any possible work around for this limitation, other than completely writing my own CFileDialogExx class ?