Question

I have a TOpenDialog component I am creating on runtime and I want to disable the hint that pops up over files when it is used. I have not written any exrta code for this than creating the object, executing the object and extracting the filename,, then freeing the instance.

Can I do what I want to do? If so, how do I do this?

Answer 1

I googled for ‘opendialog crash tooltip’ and the first hit gave me this. The solution for their problem (and probably yours) is this:

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You only need to add this modification to the first form of your application:

uses ActiveX;  initialization   OleInitialize(nil);  finalization   OleUninitialize  end.