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Hi. I recently upgraded to 2.84. My app has a grid with some CExtGridCellFiles in it. In 2.83, if I click the ellipsis button, I can navigate to a file to open. The grid will then be populated with the path to that file, which is great. Upgrading to 2.84 gives me the new shell file browser which is fine. However, when I navigate to a file to open with it, the path that shows up in the cell now shows up in double quotes, which breaks all our existing code. Moreover, if you type the path directly into the cell rather than using the ellipsis button, you don’t get any quotes so your code has to handle both cases which seems inconvenient at best.

Here is the offending code from CExtGridCellFile::GetFile():

CExtSafeString str;

    INT nIndex, nCount = INT( dlgShellFile.m_arrRetValNames.GetSize() );

    for( nIndex = 0; nIndex < nCount; nIndex ++ )

    {

        CExtSafeString & strTmp = dlgShellFile.m_arrRetValNames.ElementAt( nIndex );

        if( nIndex > 0 )

            str += _T(" ");

        str += _T("\"");         // Add double quotes and make existing code incompatible

        str += LPCTSTR(strTmp);

        str += _T("\"");

    }

Another problem I’ve seen is with the directory browser (as opposed to the file browser). With that, if the contents of the grid cell already contains a valid path, I would expect the shell browser to open directly to that path (as was the case in 2.83). Instead it opens to some completely random other path for no apparent reason.

Thoughts?<o:p></o:p>

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