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

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?

Hi Lobo Lunar 🙂

Well-spotted 👍 !! 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 😁

evilO/Olive

np 🙂

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

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

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:

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.