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How to position TOpenDialog

I have a Delphi application that uses TOpenDialog so the user can select a file. By default, an open dialog box is displayed in the center of the current monitor, which may currently be "miles" from the application window. I would like the dialog box to be displayed in the owner control center of TOpenDialog, otherwise I would stop at the main application window.

The following kind of code works, it is derived from TJvOpenDialog, which gave me some hint on how to do this:

type
  TMyOpenDialog = class(TJvOpenDialog)
  private
    procedure SetPosition;
  protected
    procedure DoFolderChange; override;
    procedure WndProc(var Msg: TMessage); override;
  end;

procedure TMyOpenDialog.SetPosition;
begin
var
  Monitor: TMonitor;
  ParentControl: TWinControl;
  Res: LongBool;
begin
  if (Assigned(Owner)) and (Owner is TWinControl) then
    ParentControl := (Owner as TWinControl)
  else if Application.MainForm <> nil then
    ParentControl := Application.MainForm
  else begin
    // this code was already in TJvOpenDialog
    Monitor := Screen.Monitors[0];
    Res := SetWindowPos(ParentWnd, 0,
      Monitor.Left + ((Monitor.Width - Width) div 2),
      Monitor.Top + ((Monitor.Height - Height) div 3),
      Width, Height,
      SWP_NOACTIVATE or SWP_NOZORDER);
    exit; // =>
  end;
  // this is new
  Res := SetWindowPos(GetParent(Handle), 0,
    ParentControl.Left + ((ParentControl.Width - Width) div 2),
    ParentControl.Top + ((ParentControl.Height - Height) div 3),
    Width, Height,
    SWP_NOACTIVATE or SWP_NOZORDER);
end;

procedure TMyOpenDialog.DoFolderChange
begin
  inherited DoFolderChange;  // call inherited first, it sets the dialog style etc.
  SetPosition;
end;

procedure TMyOpenDialog.WndProc(var Msg: TMessage);
begin
  case Msg.Msg of
    WM_ENTERIDLE: begin
      // This has never been called in my tests, but since TJVOpenDialog
      // does it I figured there may be some fringe case which requires
      // SetPosition being called from here.
      inherited; // call inherited first, it sets the dialog style etc.
      SetPosition;
      exit;
    end;
  end;
  inherited;
end;

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Delphi 2007, Windows XP, Windows XP.

+3
3

TJvOpenDialog TOpenDialog, , VCL . VCL CDN_INITDONE. WM_SHOWWINDOW , WM_ENTERIDLE.

uses
  commdlg;

[...]

procedure TJvOpenDialog.DoFolderChange;
begin
  inherited DoFolderChange;  
//  SetPosition; // shouldn't be needing this, only place the dialog once
end;

procedure TJvOpenDialog.WndProc(var Msg: TMessage);
begin
  case Msg.Msg of
    WM_NOTIFY: begin
      if POFNotify(Msg.LParam)^.hdr.code = CDN_INITDONE then begin
        inherited;    // VCL centers the dialog here
        SetPosition;  // we don't like it ;)
        Exit;
      end;
  end;
  inherited;
end;

,

procedure TJvOpenDialog.WndProc(var Msg: TMessage);
begin
  case Msg.Msg of
    WM_NOTIFY: if POFNotify(Msg.LParam)^.hdr.code = CDN_INITDONE then
                 Exit;
  end;
  inherited;
end;

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, , OwnerHwnd "" .

Windows, , , .

, Execute Application.Handle, , , , .

Execute , , . , .

Delphi 2010, , Execute, Delphi. , , OwnerHwnd.

100%, , , .

+5

I tried both examples without success ... but here is a simplex solution:

type
  TPThread = class(TThread)
  private
       Title : string;   
       XPos,YPos : integer; 
  protected
    procedure Execute; override;
  end;

  TODialogPos = class(Dialogs.TOpenDialog)
  private
     Pt : TPThread;
  public
     function Execute(X,Y : integer):boolean; reintroduce;
  end;

  TSDialogPos = class(Dialogs.TSaveDialog)
  private
     Pt : TPThread;
  public
     function Execute(X,Y : integer):boolean; reintroduce;
  end;

implementation

procedure TPThread.Execute;
var ODhandle : THandle; dlgRect  : TRect;
begin
    ODhandle:= FindWindow(nil, PChar(Title));
    while (ODhandle = 0) do ODhandle:= FindWindow(nil, PChar(Title));
    if ODhandle <> 0 then begin
       GetWindowRect(ODhandle, dlgRect);
       with dlgRect do begin
         XPos:=XPos-(Right-Left) div 2;
         YPos:=YPos-(Bottom-Top) div 2;
         MoveWindow(ODhandle, XPos, YPos,Right-Left,Bottom-Top,True);
         SetWindowPos(ODhandle, HWND_TOP, XPos, YPos, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE);
       end
    end;
    DoTerminate;
end;

function TODialogPos.Execute(X,Y : integer):boolean;
begin
  Pt:= TPThread.Create(False);
  Pt.XPos := X;
  Pt.YPos := Y;
  if Self.Title <> '' then
     Pt.Title := Self.Title
  else begin
    Self.Title := 'Open';
    Pt.Title := Self.Title;
  end;
  Result:= inherited Execute;
  Pt.Free;
end;

function TSDialogPos.Execute(X,Y : integer):boolean;
begin
  Pt:= TPThread.Create(False);
  Pt.XPos := X;
  Pt.YPos := Y;

  if Self.Title <> '' then
     Pt.Title := Self.Title
  else begin
    Self.Title := 'Save';
    Pt.Title := Self.Title;
  end;

  Result:= inherited Execute;
  Pt.Free;
end;
...

Use it as (for example, the Save Dilaog Center in Form1) the following code:

type 
 TForm1 = class(TForm)
 ...

 ...
 dlgSave:=TSDialogPos.Create(self);

 dlgSave.Filter := 'Symbol File (*.asy)|*.asy';
 dlgSave.Options:=[ofHideReadOnly,ofExtensionDifferent,ofPathMustExist,
                   ofCreatePrompt,ofNoTestFileCreate,ofNoNetworkButton,
                   ofOldStyleDialog,ofEnableIncludeNotify,ofEnableSizing];
 ...
 with dlgSave do begin
    Title :='Copy : [ *.asy ] with Attributes';
    InitialDir:= DirectoryList.Directory;
    FileName:='*.asy';
 end;
 ...
 with Form1 do
 if dlgSave.Execute(Left+Width div 2, Top+Height div 2) then begin
    // your code
 end;
 ...
 dlgSave.Free
 ...
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