Can i change window title of SHBrowseForFolder Function.

[Le rner]

Hi all, in SHBrowseForFolder Function when window open its title is "Browse for folder". please tell me can i change it. thanks in advance.

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[DeepakMega]

The SHBrowseForFolder [^] takes in a pointer to a BROWSERINFO[^] structure. You can assign the lpszTitle of BROWSERINFO and pass the BROWSERINFO to SHBrowseForFolder .

[Le rner]

In BROWSERINFO structur the parameter discription like this "lpszTitle Pointer to a null-terminated string that is displayed above the tree view control in the dialog box. This string can be used to specify instructions to the user. " this parameter not change the main window title. please help me.

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[Le rner]

LPMALLOC pMalloc;
LPITEMIDLIST pidl;
TCHAR szPath [MAX_PATH]; // not used
BROWSEINFO bi = { GetSafeHwnd(), NULL, szPath,
_T("Test title for browse dialog"),
BIF_VALIDATE|BIF_UAHINT|BIF_NEWDIALOGSTYLE|BIF_NONEWFOLDERBUTTON|BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS, NULL, NULL };

pidl = SHBrowseForFolder ( &bi );

if ( NULL != pidl )
{
	
	SHGetMalloc ( &pMalloc );
	pMalloc->Free(pidl);
	pMalloc->Release();
 }	

here the window title is remain same "Browse for folder",and "Test title for browse dialog" comes above on dir tree.

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[Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer]

As you've found out, the lpszTitle member of the BROWSEINFO structure does what it says - changes the text above the tree control, rather than the title. I'd agree that the variabke name is a bit misleading, but the help text tells the truth. Maybe make a browsecallbackproc? The docs say that the first parameter of this callback function is the window of the browese dialog. Could yopu call SetWindowText from there? It passes a BFFM_INITIALIZED message to the proc, so you could change the text very soon. Good luck, Iain.

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[CPallini]

You may use the lpfn member of the struct, for instance

int CALLBACK MyCallback(
HWND hwnd,
UINT uMsg,
LPARAM lParam,
LPARAM lpData
)
{
if (uMsg == BFFM_INITIALIZED)
SetWindowText(hwnd, _T("Hi folks"));
return 0;
}

and then

//...
BROWSEINFO bi = {
GetSafeHwnd(),
NULL,
szPath,
_T("Test title for browse dialog"),
BIF_VALIDATE|BIF_UAHINT|BIF_NEWDIALOGSTYLE|BIF_NONEWFOLDERBUTTON|BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS,
MyCallback,
NULL
};

pidl = SHBrowseForFolder ( &bi );

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[Le rner]

Thank u very much its really helps me.

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[Le rner]

one more question for browse for folder the ok button enable on my computer type location i want this type of location the ok button should be disable.

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[Stuart Dootson]

1. You can set the ulFlags member of the BROWSEINFO structure you pass to SHBrowseForFolder to specify that (for example) you only want file-system directories. 2) You can implement functionality in the BrowseCallbackProc[^] to enable/disable the OK button.

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