Glenn L. reported that the problem (i.e. the file list goes & stays blank when changing from the initial filter) doesn't occur on Win2kSP4. And here's some more details from my fiddling around:
- Changing the order of the "use" statements has no effect on the problem. - It fails when bringing in the constants of any MS Office app, be it Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, or PowerPoint. - The statement "use Win32::OLE:Const;" does not cause the failure. - Explicitly setting every single argument for GetOpenFileName does not help any. (I thought perhaps some arg was getting clobbered). - Only occurs on the Explorer-style dialog, not the older non-Explorer view (argument "-explorer => 0"). So it smells like a Microsoft DLL issue, but what do I know. My workaround is to provide only one filter, namely "All Files". -Ed V
