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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