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RE: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog

[Pascal G. <pas...@ar...>]

Thanks. Looking into it.
 
Pascal.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Freya [mailto:df...@op...]
Sent: 22 October 2002 12:50
To: 'WinProgramming (E-mail)'
Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog


SHBrowseForFolder
 
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-----Original Message-----
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Pascal Gane
Sent: Tuesday, 22 October 2002 9:38 PM
To: WinProgramming (E-mail)
Subject: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog
 
Anybody knows which Win32 function to use (maybe MFC based) to allow the
user to select a folder not file ?? 
Using CFileDialog is fine for files but it only allows me to select a folder
that already contains a file. I'd like to be able to select any folder.
Happy coding, 
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RE: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog

[Pascal G. <pas...@ar...>]

Nice, seems to do most of the job but how do you make it open at a specified
folder without restrictiing the access to only the folders below that one ??
It seems that you always have to create it with the desktop as the default
folder but then every time you want to choose a folder you have to navigate
from the start again. Any ideas ???
 
Pascal.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Terdiman [mailto:p.t...@wa...]
Sent: 22 October 2002 12:46
To: WinProgramming (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog


SHBrowseForFolder ?
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Pascal Gane <mailto:pas...@ar...>  
To: WinProgramming  <mailto:gam...@li...>
(E-mail) 
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 1:37 PM
Subject: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog


Anybody knows which Win32 function to use (maybe MFC based) to allow the
user to select a folder not file ?? 
Using CFileDialog is fine for files but it only allows me to select a folder
that already contains a file. I'd like to be able to select any folder.

Happy coding, 
Pascal. 

-------------------------------------------- 
Pascal Gane 
Tel : 07940 503 610 
"Shine" 
Computer Artworks 
www.artworks.co.uk 

"Visiting is pretty 
Visiting is good 
Seems that all they ever 
Wanted was a brother." 
Foo Fighters - "This is a call" 

Re: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog

[Rich <leg...@xm...>]

In article <B14C9D7F1977D111AD740060970ACBDA011A5304@warhol>,
    Pascal Gane <pas...@ar...>  writes:

> Nice, seems to do most of the job but how do you make it open at a specified
> folder without restrictiing the access to only the folders below that one ??

RTFMSDN
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RE: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog

[Pascal G. <pas...@ar...>]

That was nice and really unhelpful. I'd rather you sent me an e-mail
directly that waste bandwidth here. And I read the MSDN, thank you,
otherwise I would have posted here.

Since you apparently read better than I did, would you mind telling me which
chapter should I turn my attention to ??

Thanks,
Pascal.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich [mailto:leg...@xm...]
Sent: 22 October 2002 17:17
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog 



In article <B14C9D7F1977D111AD740060970ACBDA011A5304@warhol>,
    Pascal Gane <pas...@ar...>  writes:

> Nice, seems to do most of the job but how do you make it open at a
specified
> folder without restrictiing the access to only the folders below that one
??

RTFMSDN
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Re: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog

[Rich <leg...@xm...>]

In article <B14C9D7F1977D111AD740060970ACBDA011A530B@warhol>,
    Pascal Gane <pas...@ar...>  writes:

> That was nice and really unhelpful.

...and with that opening remark, you want me to take you on a
personalized guided tour of the documentation?  The reason I posted
only RTFMSDN is that the information you desire is 1 mouse click away
from the page describing SHBrowseForFolder.  Therefore, I conclude
that you really haven't bothered to look at the documentation and
instead want us to handhold you through the entire process.
Therefore, I suggest that you RTFMSDN yourself.
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Re: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog

[Rich <leg...@xm...>]

Thinking about this a little more, I'll start over and apologize if you
felt my last response was too brutal.  Everyone has their up and down
moments and I should probably learn to post less in my down moments...

Look at the MSDN docs for BROWSEINFO, specifically the pidlRoot
member:

    "Pointer to an ITEMIDLIST structure (PIDL) specifying the location
    of the root folder from which to start browsing. Only the
    specified folder and any subfolders that are beneath it in the
    namespace hierarchy will appear in the dialog box. This member can
    be NULL; in that case, the namespace root (the desktop folder) is
    used."

Look in the MSDN Shell docs if you don't know what it means by PIDL
or ITEMIDLIST.

If you want to browse for a folder and allow the user to navigate up
above pidlRoot, then I think you need to make your own dialog for
that.
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RE: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog

[Pascal G. <pas...@ar...>]

As I stated I had read the MSDN and I saw that stuff about the root folder
but as you say this is locking the browsing to folders below the root. It
turns out that having a callback function might be the way to do it but I
don't have time to investigate further. That was not said in a very clear
like "this will set the starting browsing folder". So I am still a bit
mystified.

But I still think that instead of pointing the obvious (and being
patronising while at it :)), a short "Check the browseinfo stuff in the
MSDN" for example would have at least been helpful. But now I have other MFC
problems.... Will it ever stop ???

Pascal.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich [mailto:leg...@xm...]
Sent: 24 October 2002 17:54
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog 



Thinking about this a little more, I'll start over and apologize if you
felt my last response was too brutal.  Everyone has their up and down
moments and I should probably learn to post less in my down moments...

Look at the MSDN docs for BROWSEINFO, specifically the pidlRoot
member:

    "Pointer to an ITEMIDLIST structure (PIDL) specifying the location
    of the root folder from which to start browsing. Only the
    specified folder and any subfolders that are beneath it in the
    namespace hierarchy will appear in the dialog box. This member can
    be NULL; in that case, the namespace root (the desktop folder) is
    used."

Look in the MSDN Shell docs if you don't know what it means by PIDL
or ITEMIDLIST.

If you want to browse for a folder and allow the user to navigate up
above pidlRoot, then I think you need to make your own dialog for
that.
-- 
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Re: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog

[Colin F. <cp...@ea...>]

RE: [GD-Windows] Choosing a folder with a dialog>>> But now I have other MFC
problems....
>>> Will it ever stop ???
>>> Pascal.

The answer to that question might very well
drive you insane!

The truth is out there, but I've been told
that I can't handle the truth.

--- Colin
cp...@ea...