tseli0s/nvdialog

Why not use IFileOpenDialog?

shalva97 opened this issue · 4 comments

shalva97 commented

Just a question. The docs of https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/commdlg/nf-commdlg-getopenfilenamea say that they are superseded by IFileOpenDialog, So why not use IFileOpenDialog ?

tseli0s commented

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't IFileOpenDialog a C++ class?

shalva97 commented

I guess its C++ class. Im new to it and wanted to try Kotlin Native so I was wondering why you did not use IFileOpenDialog, because I had access to both of them from Kotlin.

Just to confirm its not possible to use C++ class in C, right?

tseli0s commented

I mean, we could workaround it somehow, but it's not like there's any reason to do this as C++ from C requires a layer of "C abstraction" due to different ABIs etc.

If Microsoft completely drops GetOpenFileNameA and there's no other C-only alternative maybe I'll do it, but I don't see this happening any time soon.

shalva97 commented

thanks for the information. will close this ticket then 🚀