How to open the dialog 'Open Folder' not 'Open File' ??

[Grrrr]

Thanks!

[BaldwinMartin]

Hi You want to open a folder with a return of a path? or Open a folder to make changes to it's attributes? Best Wishes and Happy Holiday's, ez_way

[RChin]

If you're talking about opening Window's folder selection dialog, take a look at the ::SHBrowseForFolder() API. You'll need to include the <Shlwapi.h> header file.

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[Grrrr]

Yeah. I really want this function. But i found this dialog is not similar with use FileDialog(),When i use FileDialog to open a dialog to open a file.

[RChin]

Grrrr wrote: But i found this dialog is not similar with use FileDialog(), Yeah, I know that using the Windows API folder function is not as easy as using MFC's CFileDialog.
However I did recall something here on CP, so a little searching has uncovered This:[^]
Its a C++ wrapper for the ::SHBrowseForFolder API. I havent used it myself, but I probably will try it out in my next project.

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[Juan Carlos SM]

try this class: ------------------------------ DirDialog.h class CDirDialog { public: CDirDialog(); virtual ~CDirDialog(); BOOL DoBrowse(CWnd *pwndParent = NULL); CString m_strWindowTitle; CString m_strPath; CString m_strInitDir; CString m_strSelDir; CString m_strTitle; int m_iImageIndex; BOOL m_bStatus; private: virtual BOOL SelChanged(LPCSTR lpcsSelection, CString& csStatusText) { return TRUE; }; static int __stdcall CDirDialog::BrowseCtrlCallback(HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, LPARAM lParam, LPARAM lpData); }; ------------------------------ DirDialog.cpp // Callback function called by SHBrowseForFolder's browse control // after initialization and when selection changes int __stdcall CDirDialog::BrowseCtrlCallback(HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, LPARAM lParam, LPARAM lpData) { CDirDialog* pDirDialogObj = (CDirDialog*)lpData; if (uMsg == BFFM_INITIALIZED) { if (!pDirDialogObj->m_strSelDir.IsEmpty() ) ::SendMessage(hwnd, BFFM_SETSELECTION, TRUE, (LPARAM)(LPCTSTR)(pDirDialogObj->m_strSelDir)); if (!pDirDialogObj->m_strWindowTitle.IsEmpty() ) ::SetWindowText(hwnd, (LPCTSTR) pDirDialogObj->m_strWindowTitle); } else if (uMsg == BFFM_SELCHANGED) { LPITEMIDLIST pidl = (LPITEMIDLIST)lParam; char selection[MAX_PATH]; if (!::SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, selection) ) selection[0] = '\0'; CString csStatusText; BOOL bOk = pDirDialogObj->SelChanged(selection, csStatusText); if (pDirDialogObj->m_bStatus ) ::SendMessage(hwnd, BFFM_SETSTATUSTEXT , 0, (LPARAM)(LPCSTR)csStatusText); ::SendMessage(hwnd, BFFM_ENABLEOK, 0, bOk); } return 0; } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Construction/Destruction ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CDirDialog::CDirDialog() { m_bStatus = FALSE; } CDirDialog::~CDirDialog() { } BOOL CDirDialog::DoBrowse(CWnd *pwndParent) { if (!m_strSelDir.IsEmpty()) { m_strSelDir.TrimRight(); if( m_strSelDir.Right(1) == "\\" || m_strSelDir.Right(1) == "//" ) m_strSelDir = m_strSelDir.Left(m_strSelDir.GetLength() - 1); } LPMALLOC pMalloc; if (SHGetMalloc(&pMalloc) != NOERROR ) return FALSE; BROWSEINFO bInfo; LPITEMIDLIST pidl; ZeroMemory((PVOID)&bInfo, sizeof(BROWSEINFO) ); BOOL bIsRepository(m_strInitDir.IsEmpty() ); if (!m_strInitDir.IsEmpty() ) { OLECHAR olePath[