Its time for sharing an interesting thing, which I found today.
As we all know "Dialog boxes" don't contain Maximize, Minimize buttons. They only have "Close" button and we can't maximize them. If we right-click on the titlebar of a dialog box, we get only 2 options in context menu:
Move
Close
But for my surprise, when I opened "Browse" dialog box in RUN, I found that it can be maximized even its a dialog box. If you double-click on its titlebar, it'll be maximized. (But not fully maximized, the border will still be visible). Also you'll get an option "Maximize" in context menu of titlebar.
So its an interesting thing in Vista and 7. I think since Browse dialog box looks similar to Windows Explorer and has same properties, that's why it can be maximized irrespective of other dialog boxes.
PS: It happens for all Browse/Save/Open dialog boxes in all windows applications, like Notepad, etc.
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Kakarotto
I think you're missing a point here. It is NOT a bug, it is a feature.. how many times have you been looking for a file in that damn "browse" box, or looking for a picture in such a reduced space?? I had always wanted to have the posibility to maximize it, and here it is.. even if it doesn't have the button, it has the double-click functionailty to bring it high. And I love this feature, I use it a lot.
VG
^^ Yep. Agree. :)
baLaJi
hiya, i wonder if this browse box can be transformed to a fully functional file>open kinda dialog which ''remembers'' its size permanently :?: that'd need some code change i believe. :!:
bobsobol
File browsers commonly do have this functionality. When programming them, you can set them to be "resizable" which is the default in my IDE, or not.
The double click title bar to maximise used to need a patch in 9x, and a tweak in 2k IMS, but I think (though I XPLited my XP copies for a long time now) XP does have this by default...
I've been (no not maximising or I forget what I was browsing for in the first place, but) resizing browse for file and File Open / File Save dialogues for many years.
What has frustrated me, is when programmers set the Open/Save dialogue to "not be sizable" especially when thumbnail view is useful.
balaji
yes that's what has been frustrating me too in reshacker. the file>open dialog in reshacker is not resizable. i've tried double-clicking the xp file>open file>save dialogs, but they don't maximize, though they can be resized. but i've tried every possible way to make the reshacker file>open dialog to get it larger than the ugly fixed 426x268 px, but haven't been able to hack it till date. i've tried changing comdlg32.dll/ocx for good. but no success till date.
help or advise would be much appreciated.
thanx.
Dave Horsman
I believe this is still an issue. Double click the the title bar (top of the window) it open to it's largest available default size. (Like the RESTORE window, not a MAXIMIZE)