evilO
24th May 2004 08:52 UTC

DirRequest different using XP or NT
Hi everyone :)

I've got a simple question about the DirRequest dialog box (I've searched the forums and FAQ without success):

The button "Make new folder" appears using WinXP and does *NOT* appear using WinNT. I guess it's windows-related, but.. does anyone know why?

Thanks for any hint :)

evilO/Olive

Joel
24th May 2004 14:42 UTC

The BIF_USENEWUI has its limits.
That means the button appears only version 5 or higher of the Shell32.dll or Shlwapi.dll.
What NT version is running from?

evilO
24th May 2004 16:35 UTC

Hi Lobo Lunar :)

Well-spotted :up: !! I've just checked the NT version on the test machine: 4.00.1381
I've followed your link, thank you very much for the pointer, it really helped :D

evilO/Olive

Joel
25th May 2004 01:18 UTC

np :)

carlosfocker
11th May 2006 14:11 UTC

Hate to bumb this post but has anyone come up with a solution to this?

Afrow UK
11th May 2006 14:18 UTC

Like Joel (Lobo) says, v5.0 of shell32 needs to be installed or greater, which contains the new version of the browse dialog with the Make New Folder button.

-Stu

carlosfocker
11th May 2006 14:36 UTC

Thats the problem. As far as I know, the highest version of shell32.dll you can have on Windows NT 4 is 4.71. Have you installed 5.0 or higher?

This link states this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...e/versions.asp

onad
12th May 2006 09:35 UTC

In the worst case scenario you could opt for creating a plugin where you craft the dialogbox yourself and do not use the OS shell dialog.

I think I also saw somewhere already an NSIS plugin with alternative dir select and create. A forum search would help you.