Problem in File dialog Box ,why it is hidden how to get it on top of sap

It is hidden how to get it on top of sap

I am having a similar problem. However, the fileDialog only shows up behind SAP occasionally. I am running each ona separate thread and have tried passing a blank form as the parent (as was suggested), but the problem persists.
private void ThreadMethod()
           Form1 f = new Form1();
            f.TopMost = true;
            f.ShowInTaskbar = true;
            System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog op = new System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog();
            op.InitialDirectory = "c:
            if (op.ShowDialog(f) == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK)
This is called from a button click
if (pVal.ItemUID == "BT00")
                    System.Threading.Thread newThread = new System.Threading.Thread(new System.Threading.ThreadStart(ThreadMethod));
                    newThread.SetApartmentState(System.Threading.ApartmentState.STA);
                    newThread.Start();
Anyone got ideas?

Similar Messages

Why can't I preview indd files within InDesign's open file dialog box?

Hello all,
It is bad enough that Adobe doesn't add a plugin to preview any Adobe source file within Windows Explorer (well, except for PDF but I think Microsoft did that).
But I find it ridiculous that I cannot preview .indd source files inside InDesign's Open File dialog box. It just states, "No preview available". I am sure this failure is tied into what Windows can preview... still, not a good excuse!
This is also the same problem in both Illustrator and Photoshop.... neither Adobe program can preview their own file format!
WHY? OR How can I correct this?
[UPDATE: SageThumbs | SourceForge.net seems to partially work on many Photoshop files (works reasonably well as long as I limit the file size to 70mb), it doesn't seem to work on Illustrator files (despite the claim), and it doesn't work on InDesign.]
Still, the question remains, why isn't Adobe taking responsibility for this?

I think you all misunderstood.
I am referring to opening files *within* the Adobe software. Example: Inside InDesign, I click File > Open... I see a list of my .indd files and to the right is a window with the words, "Select a file to preview." If I select an .indd file, I think it is reasonable to assume that I will see a preview of the .indd file... but NO, I just see the message, "No preview available."
In my opinion, this is a failing of Adobe!
> Use bridge
Why would I want to open a separate program just to see thumbnails? Sure Bridge has its uses when I want to look at a lot of different images but I am only talking about quickly seeing a thumbnail before I open a single file within either InDesign, Photoshop, or Illustrator.
Q. If Bridge can render thumbnails, why on Earth would Adobe not place the preview code into the open file dialog of each program?

File dialog box: how get full path and filename (firefox 3.0 problem)

Hi,
I have a smilar problem then discussed in this thread: file dialog box: how get full path and filename
Now this solution doesn't seem to work in firefox 3.0,I only get the filename but not the full path.
I have tried to solve this problem by adding *"netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalFileRead");"* in a javacript function but that doesn't do the trick
Although when i tested it local it does work.
Any idees how to solve this?
Best Regards
Stijn

Actually, that is strange and scarry. With 20% of the browser market share they decide to behave like Microsoft did in the past - they want to decide what users need and what they do not need. With 3.0 I have a real problem with some of my applications. They are all tested in IE6, IE7, FF2.0 and they all work the same way (they even work with Opera and Safari). Now, I will for sure not go there and make it work for 3.0, just because 2 out of 200 users use FF3.0. Up to now I have always recomended FF as the best browser. 3.0 causes my opinion to change completely. Competition is always good but it is a question if it is good if we have 20 different browsers out there with equal market shares.
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.opal-consulting.de/training
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Problem using the File Dialog Box in a Client/Server application

I am developping a client-server application using Labview 5.1 . The application on the server acquires data from some instruments and saves it on file, while the application on the clients displayes such acquired data. For doing this I call some routines on the server via the "Open Application vi" (remote connection). All goes well except when I open on the server the "File Dialog Box vi" : in this case the application on the clients is blocked (is blocked the execution of the called vi on the server). Only when
the File Dialog Box on the server is closed, the execution of the called vi on the server starts again.
I need to use the File Dialog Box on the server, but I don' t want to stop at the same time
the clients !!
I need help for resolving such problem.
Many thanks in advance !!!

Hi!
waldemar.hersacher wrote:
"It seems that the VIs called by the clients are running in the user interface thread.
A call to the file dialog box will call a modal system dialog. So LV can't go on executing VIs in the user interface thread."
Are you sure? I think, that File Dialog, called by LabVIEW File Dialog from Advanced File Functions Palette doesn't blocking any cycles in subVI, which running in UI Thread. Look in my old example (that was prepared for other topic, but may be good for this topic too).
2 linus:
I think, you must a little bit reorganize you application for to do this. You must put your File Dialog into separated cycle. This cycle, of course, will be blocked when File Dialog appear on the screen. But other cy
cle, which responsible for visualization will run continuosly at the same time...
Attachments:
no_block_with_file_open_dialog.zip ‏42 KB

Why Browse File Dialog Box Starts Part-Way Down?

Whenever I am presented with a dialog box to browse files, the list of
files always starts up showing the filename about 1/5 the way down
the list, even though I always (at least recently) have had to access
a file at the beginning of the list. This is a minor annoyance but I was
wondering why. I'd expect it to default to either the approximate area
of the list where I'd last selected a file, or perhaps come up with the
file at the top of the list selected or at least visible. Seems strange
to me, and I was wondering if there was a way of changing that.

__KB__ wrote:
Hello,
When the File dialog box is running, other while loop time execution goes down.
Thanks.
This you have already mentioned in your first post... now my question is how you've actually figured it out... or can you share your code here???
I am not allergic to Kudos, in fact I love Kudos.
Make your LabVIEW experience more CONVENIENT.

File Dialog Box often takes a long time to execute

Hi all
The Labview File Dialog Box Express VI sometimes takes 5 to 10 seconds to execute. On other occasions, it executes in a blink of an eye. Why is that so?
I have tried to use the older Open/Create/Replace File VI as suggested in one of the forum's posts...but it behaves exactly the same way. Another problem is the trimming of the filename, which has also been reported and has NOT YET been solved.
(By the way...Recently, I updated to LV 2012 SP2 by suggestion of the NI Update Manager, only to find out that I was not entitled to this SP (which apparently only includes bug fixes) and I will have to roll back to LV 2012. Still, in the evaluation version I can see that the bug is not fixed. Labview must have a lot of serious bugs for NI to ask for a paid bug fix, in which some bugs remain after having been reported a long time ago..well...)
What worries me now is that intermittent lag in the execution of the File Dialog (such a basic basic function of a program...). Anyone have any idea about this? The support menu said "Ask an engineer"...any of the NI engineers has any suggestion?
Regards
Helder
Attachments:
FileDialogTest.vi ‏26 KB

First of all: Thank you very much for the objective answer. I suppose that yor actually ARE a NI engineer, as I had hoped for.
lease find my comments above (helder---------------------)
helder wrote:
The Labview File Dialog Box Express VI sometimes takes 5 to 10 seconds to execute. On other occasions, it executes in a blink of an eye. Why is that so?
What worries me now is that intermittent lag in the execution of the File Dialog (such a basic basic function of a program...). Anyone have any idea about this?
The file dialog is provided by the OS, so if it is slow it is not LabVIEW's fault.
What kind of computer do you have? Is this a laptop that spins down the HD to save power? In this case it needs to wait for the HD to spin up. (You can change the windows power profile or you can spend more money and get an SSD).
Are you very low on memory?
Does your LabVIEW program waste 100% CPU in parallel doing nothing due to bad coding?
Are you pointing to a location that has millions of files?
Are you pointing to a network location?
helder:---------------------------------------
I understand that the File Dialog is provided by the OS. But I have other applications on my PC and this doesn't happen - just in Labview. Sorry! And sometimes it
doesn't happen. Every 10 times I open the File dialog Box, 5 times it takes long and 5 times it is immediate.
(I am not low on memory, my coding is not bad>-look at the VI I sent, it just contains the fragment which uses the File Dialog Box and it behaves the same way! I am pointing to the same location that the other applications point to, I am not pointing to a network location, the PC is not spinning the disk down, etc etc.)
But yes, I will try it on another PC
(There was another post on the forum on this issue, but can't seem to find it now, just find my own post )
I attach a video demo of what happens.
helder wrote:
Another problem is the trimming of the filename, which has also been reported and has NOT YET been solved.
What problem is that? Can you elaborate? There is a known bug in the windows dialog box that sometimes the pre-filled file names are shifted and not fully visible. This is a windows bug documented by Microsoft and LabVIEW has no control over it. It is not NIs job to fix OS problems.
helder:-------------------------------------------
Of course you can't fix the OS.
If it is a windows bug, we will have to live with it.
A previous post on your forum did not provide me with that information (http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/File-dialog-trimming-the-default-name/td-p/2189874). The fact that it is a windows bug was not mentioned there.
helder wrote:
Hi all
(By the way...Recently, I updated to LV 2012 SP2 by suggestion of the NI Update Manager, only to find out that I was not entitled to this SP (which apparently only includes bug fixes) and I will have to roll back to LV 2012. Still, in the evaluation version I can see that the bug is not fixed.
Patches are included, service packs are not included. I think this is well documented. Most users are on SSP, this way you are always entitled to the newest version.
As with anything else, software has bugs. It is impossible to test a huge, complex system like LabVIEW under all scenarios. The possible number of combinations of hardware and other installed software on any particular computer probably exceeds the number of atoms in the universe. It is actually amazing how few bugs there are and how well it works. What "bug" are you talking about? Bugs are prioritized according to rules. Critical bugs are typically fixed very quickly. A cosmetic issue that only affects you and nobody else will take longer or might not even get fixed. Are you talking about a confirmed bug that could be reproduced by NI? Do you have a CAR#?
helder:----------------------------------------
I was referring to the file-name-shifting-cosmetic-bug that the October-2012 post had indicated. But if it is a Windows-bug, NI does not have any responsibility, of
course.
Regarding the bugs, of course they are unavoidable.
helder wrote:
Labview must have a lot of serious bugs for NI to ask for a paid bug fix, in which some bugs remain after having been reported a long time ago..well...)
That sentence makes no sense! Why would the number of serious bugs depend on the cost of upgrading?? You are just rambling here....
In an ideal world, NI would have an unlimited number of programmers that can work 24/7 to immediately fix any discovered bug. This would only be possible if all users are willing to pay an unlimited amount of money for the software. As I mentioned, bug fixes are free in the form of patches, and they come out regularly. Service packs include new features and are not free.
helder:---------------------------------------
"....include new features"..????
---->>From http://www.ni.com/labview/release-details/
"LabVIEW 2012 Service Pack 1 is an exclusive update to LabVIEW 2012 for NI Standard Service Program (SSP) customers. There are no new product features introduced in service pack releases; instead, these releases provide bug fixes and improved stability for LabVIEW 2012. For a list of these bug fixes, click here."
No new features, just bug fixes!"
Moreover: If it isn't free, it shouldn' have let me update if I am not a SSP costumer.
Now I have a 45 days evaluation version. After that, I have to uninstall and reinstall everything.That takes some time and effort.
If there is a more direct way of rolling back t the previous version, please let me know.
Thank you

File dialog box slow down execution

Dear all,
I am using Labview 8.2.1 with Windows XP.
I have a program who's allow the user to select any file or folder thanks to File dialog box.
For a reason that i don't understand when this dialog box is displayed, other parrallel while loop time execution goes slow down.
Put on my LabView front panel File Path command without any code and press "Browse" file button as shown on joined picture_1 birng slow down execution of the while loop.
Does any body could explain why this problem appear ?
By switch off on LabView Tool parameter "Use native file dialogs" (picture_2). the problem disapear. Unfortunately this kind of old dialog box is not practical...
If any body have an idea it could help me.
Thanks.
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
picture_1.JPG ‏16 KB
picture_2.JPG ‏71 KB

__KB__ wrote:
Hello,
When the File dialog box is running, other while loop time execution goes down.
Thanks.
This you have already mentioned in your first post... now my question is how you've actually figured it out... or can you share your code here???
I am not allergic to Kudos, in fact I love Kudos.
Make your LabVIEW experience more CONVENIENT.

File dialog box: how get full path and filename

Hello All
i have a problem to save the full path and filename with file dialog box.
I want to save full path and filename in the database for creating a link to a file.
I use a file-dialogbox to choose a file.
I see in the textfiled something like this
\FULLPATH\filename.ppt
but when i save the textvalue in the database or look at the seesionvalue I see
this:
F2087258868/filename.ppt
but I need the full path to create a link. How I can get?
I use version 2.2.1..
Thanks
Putcho

Hi Putcho,
You can create some javascript that puts it into a hidden item.
In HTML Form Element Attributes: onChange="$x('P15_X').value=$x('P15_FILE').value;" Then create another process that stores the value of the hidden item in your own table...
I quickly made an example with a normal text item, so you see it copies itself to the other box: http://apex.shellprompt.net/pls/apex/f?p=286:15
Hope that helps,
Dimitri
http://dgielis.blogspot.com

How do I get back to the newest file dialog box style in LabVIEW?

I have LabVIEW 7.1 and LabVIEW 6.0.2 installed on the same machine. When I doubleclick a .vi file it tries to open in LV602. Of course, if it is a LV71 VI I get an error and it doesn't open. Then I run LV71 and load the desired VI--in this case by using the Open arrow to find it in the "recently opened" list. Now, I've made this mistake before, especially when I don't remember whether I used LV602 or LV71 to create the VI, and nothing bad has happened.
But this time something undesirable did happen: all Open File dialog boxes are of the old funky style. How do I get the file dialog boxes back that I've grown used to seeing when I use LV71?
CLUES:
1. I get the old style dialog box even when I try to open a VI--not just when a running VI invokes it.
2. The built version of the VI brings up the correct, new style, file dialog box--unlike the development environment.
I haven't found any settings in the options area that would appear to affect the file dialog box style. Has anyone ever seen anything like this?

RudyRed wrote:
Thanks for the response,
Warren. I think all my problems with LV versions coexisting
peacefully have been related to NIDAQ--and I think the workaround (for
supporting the different levels of LV DAQ VIs--see my response to
Benoit, above) shows that it is not NECESSARY for NI to orphan old LV
versions' DAQ functionality on the development computer, though it is
still painful to be able to have only one version of NIDAQ available on
a given target computer. It's probably a marketting decision
meant to encourage users to stay on the straight-and-narrow upgrade
path.
NI-DAQ has usually been working fine in
several different installed LabVIEW versions on my computer. What is
important is the order of installation. Start first with the lowest
LabVIEW version and install the latest NI-DAQ that supports that
LabVIEW version. Then go to the next LabVIEW version and install again
the latest NI-DAQ version that supported this LabVIEW version and so
on. I'm regularly working with 6.1 up to 7.1 and starting with 8.0
slowly and haven't had real show stoppers yet.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

'Open a File' dialog box doesn't show 'Favorites'

InDesign CS6, Windows 7:
File/Open gives me this:
Notice there are no 'Favorites' on the left. I have to 'browse' for my file each time. I have a ton of files on the network, and it takes several clicks to get to them. Annoying when I'm opening several files a day. The 'Recent Places' isn't too helpful here either.
Now look at what happens in InDesign CC, Windows 7 with a File/Open:
Look at all the 'Favorites' and easy browsing on the left side. Why are the 'Open a File' dialog boxes so different in CS6 and CC? I want the CS6 'Open' dialog to be just like the CC one. (I prefer to use CS6, CC is buggy on my system.)

Not helpful.
What it is... is cumbersome and un-necessary. Every other program in Windows (even Word Pad) opens with the 'standard' dialog with Favorites on the left. Why did Adobe program it differently? There has to be a fix in Preferences or something...

File Dialog Box Position

Hi there,
I've been unable to find anyone else mention this problem, but then again, I'm not exactly what to search for.
Since installing Lion, I've had a problem where when I try to open the file dialog box to save or open a file, it's position is always further down. This is annoying, especially for programs that open files from my Download folder, which is continuinally growing as I add more stuff. The sort on this is by date, and so usually I want to open the most recently downloaded file, which I have to scroll further and further up each time.
Is there any way I can get it to jump to the top?
See the attached image to see what I mean exactly.
Thanks!

the length of the session is not the problem. it is set to 50bpm at 29.97 drop frame which gives me 2138 bars at 3 hours 51 minutes record time. I only used 1896 bars at 2.5 hours to record the program and there were only 5 tracks recorded. the problem starts when I try to bounce the session to an interleaved stereo file either online or offline. a dialog window says it will exceed 2gigs and prevents me from performing the bounce. only when I select split stereo instead of interleaved within the bounce window does it let me bounce. I think it is because the 2 resulting mono files(left and right)are each less than 2gigs. Is there a limit to the file size you can create when bouncing?
a 2gig file sounds small to me when there are video files much larger within video editing software.

When I hit the escape key to close out the open file dialog box, firefox hangs or crashes.

When I open the "open file" dialog box using the ctrl+O and then hit the escape key to exit the box, I get an error message which I'm not able to paste here.
it says something about a runtime problem and if I try the same thing again to reproduce the problem, it will sometimes just hang and windows vista will tell me the program is not responding.
I've checked to see if there are any crash IDs but none were found for this time frame.
I have even disabled all add ons.
I'm currently using vista 64 bit edition and Firefox 6, beta edition.

Hi,
Please also try right-clicking on the link corresponding to the language version and '''Save Target As''' to save the Firefox installer. If the problem persists, posting [http://answers.microsoft.com/ here] would also be helpful.
[https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html Firefox Latest]

How to Shw Open File Dialog Box

Hi all,
Can anyone help me plz.
I am designing an interface using forms 9i where data entry operator has to insert data for products in the database. Also we want to store the image of the product. so I want to show an open File Dialog box from where user can pick a file and click ok & if it returns the file name with complete path, then i can read the contents of image using read_image_file.
So, is there any Oracle built-in for that???
Thanks in advance

Thanks Ronald webutil worked successfully.
But i am facing following error when i try to go to the Canvas provided by the Webutil setup(olb).
Error is given Below:
1. FRM-13008; Can't find java bean with name 'oracle.forms.webutil.ole.OleFunction'.
Previously it was giving errors on all JavaBean classes then i put the path of webutil.jar file in registry as given in the documention. It works ok for other java beans but why above error is coming.
plz Help.

Anyway to bring up a file dialog box on a remote panel

A user is requesting a file dialog box to be opened. The problem is his program is on a remote system, and I'm utilizing remote panels to bring the app to his control console. File dialogs don't seem to work, for mostly obvious reasons. Other dialog boxes appear just fine. Is there anyway to provide a file dialog box of the remote panel's computer's file structure? Or do I need to build in the feature?

Doing a search on "remote panel file dialog" gave me a bunch of hits.
In one of the threads, there was a link to File dialog to use in Remote Panel applications

Open file dialog box - Excel 2011

Not sure if this is the right forum to ask a question about running Office 2011 under Mavericks.
Since upgrading to OSX 10.9, something very odd seems to have happend to the open file dialog box in Excel. The list of the files in the current folder is displayed, but the filename column is really narrow showing just 7 characters of each name. In contrast the date modified column is incredibly wide. I can manually adjust the filename column to make it wider so I can read the filenames, but each time I reopen Excel it has defaulted back to being very narrow.
Does anyone know if there a preference setting somewhere that I can change in order to make the width default to something more readable so I don't have to manually change it every time I want to open a file. The Word and Powerpoint open dialog boxes appear normal, so the problem seems to be confined to Excel.
I had been running the same version of Office 2011 under Snow Leopard and the change to Excel only appeared after upgrading the OSX 10.9.

MalcolmBebb@Honeywell wrote:
OK, I was a bit hasty. The thanks stand. Can't see how to edit the post, please consider the rest withdrawn.
It's okay - we all get like that at some time or other. I dread reading my posting history for that reason.
I'm just glad you got exactly the help you needed.
Bill
(Mid-Level minion.)
My support system ensures that I don't look totally incompetent.
Proud to say that I've progressed beyond knowing just enough to be dangerous. I now know enough to know that I have no clue about anything at all.

Problem in File dialog Box ,why it is hidden how to get it on top of sap

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for