Ok, GetOpenFileName places the path and file into file.lpstrFile. Im using whats in that buffer on fstreams open() function: file.open(FileToLoad, ios::in) NOW, it doesn''t actually load the file. Why? Does the buffer contain bad information? Anyone?

Maybe the file is binary?
If the file is binary you need to open it like this:

file.open(FileToLoad,ios::in | ios::binary);

If that doesn''t work, do some debugging and check what FileToLoad actually contains.



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You might be using GetOpenFileName() wrong, in which case it''s not the fault of open()

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