CFileDialog

sarfaraznawaz

how to use the CFileDialog box to open the folder..... i had done to open the .file extension which successfully opening but i am not able to open the folder plz help out this .....

David Crow

sarfaraznawaz wrote:

how to use the CFileDialog box to open the folder.....

Why not use SHBrowseForFolder() instead?

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Lost User

CFileDialog automatically opens folders as they are selected by the user navigating a directory tree. Perhaps you could clarify your question.

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sarfaraznawaz

i tried but not able to open or select the particular folder ..... here my code forit void CfolderlockUIDlg::OnBnClickedAdd() { TCHAR szFilters[] = _T (" Allfolders(* *)¦* *¦¦"); CFileDialog dlg (TRUE, _T ("folder "), _T ("folders "),OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST |OFN_HIDEREADONLY | OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT, szFilters,this); //CFileDialog dlg(TRUE,NULL,NULL,OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT ,NULL,NULL,0); if (dlg.DoModal () == IDOK) { filepath = dlg.GetPathName(); m_edit.SetWindowText(filepath); } } by this it shows all the folder but i cant select the or open the folder

Chandrasekharan P

Do you want to select the folder or the the file inside the folder? if its the folder then you can use the function that was mentioned by David here is an example for that

BROWSEINFO bi;
ZeroMemory(&bi, sizeof(bi));
TCHAR szDisplayName[MAX_PATH];
szDisplayName[0] = '';

bi.hwndOwner        =   NULL; 
bi.pidlRoot         =   NULL; 
bi.pszDisplayName   =   szDisplayName; 
bi.lpszTitle        =   \_T("Please select a folder for storing received files :"); 
bi.ulFlags          =   BIF\_RETURNONLYFSDIRS;
bi.lParam           =   NULL; 
bi.iImage           =   0;  

LPITEMIDLIST   pidl   =   SHBrowseForFolder(&bi);
TCHAR   szPathName\[MAX\_PATH\]; 
if   (NULL   !=   pidl)
{
     BOOL bRet = SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl,szPathName);
     if(FALSE == bRet)
          return;
     AfxMessageBox(szPathName);
}

and if you are selecting a file then you can see this example SelectDialog - A Multiple File and Folder Select Dialog[^]

abhishek biradar

CString str; str.Format(_T("All Files (*.dat)|*.dat||"));// change name .dat to any extension you want CFileDialog file_dlg(TRUE,NULL,NULL,OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT,str); INT_PTR iRet = file_dlg.DoModal(); :)

sarfaraznawaz

thanks its working..... but one thing that its necessary to make browseinfo as zero memory ......