Re: File selection dialog changes

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

>John R Sheets writes:
> > I guess my main complaint against MS's implementation is the
> > invisible, voodoo nature of the right-click menus.  You shouldn't
> > have a feature only visible or accessible through the right mouse
> > button.
>
>Not on a dialog, where users don't expect to have to interact with
>menus.  The real problem here is that microsoft went for 'idiot
>consistency' -- the file dialog's display area is a mini-Explorer,
>complete with all the features.

Yes, but why not give users this amount of flexibility?  The explorer code
is already there and completely available as an OCX component, is it not?
It's just a matter of smart code reuse, IMO.