BUG: CommonDialog FilterIndex Always Returns Default Filter Index

ID: Q232654

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

The FilterIndex property of the CommonDialog control that ships with the Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0 (VBCE6) will always return the index for the first defined filter despite being changed by the user at run time.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.


MORE INFORMATION

The following code will behave differently between VBCE and Visual Basic 6.0.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Start a new Windows CE HPC Project in Visual Basic.


  2. Select Components from the Project menu and reference the Microsoft CE Common Dialog Control 6.0.


  3. Add a Common dialog and a Command Button to Form1.


  4. Paste the following code into Form1:


    5. 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
    CommonDialog1.Filter = "Text (*.txt)|*.txt|Pictures (*.bmp)|*.bmp"
    CommonDialog1.FilterIndex = 1
    CommonDialog1.ShowOpen
    
    MsgBox "FilterIndex: " & CommonDialog1.FilterIndex
End Sub
  5. Run the project and click the Command Button.


  6. Select a text file to open and notice that the message box will display "FilterIndex: 1."


  7. Click the Command Button again and select a bitmap file to open.


    8. Notice that the message box will again display "FilterIndex: 1," when it should display "FilterIndex: 2." This is inconsistent with how the Visual Basic 6.0 CommonDialog control works where the FilterIndex will reflect the user's selection.


REFERENCES

Visual Basic 6.0 Online Help
Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0 Online Help

Additional query words: vbce vbce6 wince 


Keywords          : kbToolkit kbVBp600bug kbWinCE kbGrpVB 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: July 16, 1999