Thumbnail view in open dialog

I am not sure if this is even possible, but it's worth a question...
Is there a way in a flex/air to open the "file open dialog" in thumbnail view? (it opens automatically in list view)
I have an application that needs to open images and it would look much better if it could open in thumbnail view so that the user can see what (s)he is selecting.

Did you ever figure this out? I too need to do this.

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Is there any error message when you try to map network Drive manually? It would be better to provide more details about error message.
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View Thumbnails in Open Dialog?

When you bring up a "open file" dialog, the window automatically comes up in the list view. Once it's open, I can manually select the thumbnail view, but next time you bring it up it goes back to the list view. I want this dialog to open with the thumbnail view selected. Anyone know of a way to do this?
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Ben wrote:
Andrey Dmitriev wrote:
Ben wrote:
Not me!
When I saw the work involved, I let my customer choose, pictures or substance. They chose substance so no ready made solution.
Ben
Ah, all LabVIEW programmers are commonly sooooo lazy... (me too)
Andrey.
Look at it the other way...
LV developers are smart (they chose LV) so they use their inteligence to work smarter not harder.
Ben
Fully agree! But LabVIEW developers are not only smart, they also able to get things done...
Quick and dirty something liike that:
LabVIEW 8.6 / WindowsXP. Not sure about Vista / 7. Too lazy to check it.
Enjoy!
Andrey.
Attachments:
Open File Dialog with Thumbnails.vi ‏12 KB

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:33:05 -0800, [email protected] wrote
in <[email protected]>:
>John, I changed my Windows default folder view to Thumbnails and
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Hi,
Is there any error message when you try to map network Drive manually? It would be better to provide more details about error message.
Generally speaking, this problem can be caused by Network Connection problem, please make sure your Client PC could access to Network Drive PC.
In addition, please check Network Drive PC security setting, if there is any firewall policy prevent this operation.
If still no use, please check Event Viewer if it identify this problem.
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TechNet Community Support
There is no error. There is no connectivity problem. THe drives map automatically and always have. I can open up File Explorer and browse these drives all I want. I can open up Word and browse to these drives just fine.
However, when I open certain programs, and click File | Open, the mapped network drives just simply aren't there. I only see C and D and that's it.

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