CFileDialog

[si_69]

Hi I am using CfileDialog, but i cant get it to display pointing to the correct directory it seems to ignore the path that i pass im using TCHAR szFilters[] = _T ("Log Files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*||"); CFileDialog dlg(TRUE, _T ("txt"), _T ("*.txt"),NULL, szFilters); CString MyPath "c:\"; if (logPath.GetLength()) dlg.GetOFN().lpstrInitialDir = MyPath; if (dlg.DoModal()==TRUE) { CString result = dlg.GetPathName(); ShellExecute(NULL, "Open", _T(result), NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW); } can anyone help thanks simon

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Try CString MyPath = "C:\\"

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[toxcct]

String MyPath "c:\"; is invalid. **'\'** is the escape character, so if you want to print a \, you must specify '\\'

CString MyPath = "C:\\";

One last thing. if (dlg.DoModal()==TRUE) is not syntactically correct. CDialog::DoModal() doesn't return a BOOL (TRUE or FALSE). it returns the exit code specified in the dialog with the call to CDialog::EndDialog(). In general, it is the ID of the buttons pressed, so you should test your CFileDialog with either IDOK or IDCANCEL.

if (dlg.DoModal() == IDOK)

-- modified at 9:30 Wednesday 27th September, 2006

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[Rinu_Raj]

I think you are using OS XP or 2000, then try dlg.GetOFN().lpstrFile = MyPath; it will work Rinu Raj

[si_69]

brahmma wrote:

Try CString MyPath = "C:\\"

have already tried that, no joy :-(

[toxcct]

did you read my answer ? does it provide much help ?

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[David Crow]

si_69 wrote:

CString MyPath "c:\";

This is a syntax error.

si_69 wrote:

if (logPath.GetLength())

What is logPath?

si_69 wrote:

dlg.GetOFN().lpstrInitialDir = MyPath;

Since GetOFN() does not exist with VC++ v6, I used m_ofn instead. Other than that, this code works fine. Do not use strcpy(), as you simply need to assign a pointer to an existing address.

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[Hamid Taebi]

You can use from Data Member m_ofn In CFileDialog that you have access to parameters of dialogbox

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