{"id":17,"date":"2013-07-14T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.wordpress.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2013-07-14T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T15:28:42","slug":"browsing-folders-vc-6-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/14\/browsing-folders-vc-6-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Browsing Folders (VC++ 6.0)"},"content":{"rendered":"

while working with MFC there are dialog boxes for opening files, but no dialog box to browse  a folder, the function below just does the same. code snippet below shows how one can open a folder browsing dialog box.<\/font><\/p>\n

BOOL BrowseFolder (<\/font><\/font> <\/p>\n

H<\/font>WND hWnd,                \/\/ Handle to the calling window.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

LPSTR pszDisplayName,      \/\/ Title of the dialog box<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

BOOL bEdit,                \/\/ whether edit box is allowed<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

LPSTR szPath )             \/\/ starting path  <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

{<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font>\/\/ TODO: Add your control notification handler code here<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

LPMALLOC pMalloc;<\/font><\/p>\n

BOOL bResult = FALSE ;<\/font><\/p>\n

\/* Gets the Shell’s default allocator *\/<\/font><\/p>\n

if<\/font> (::SHGetMalloc(&pMalloc) == NOERROR)<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

{<\/font><\/p>\n

BROWSEINFO bi;<\/font><\/p>\n

LPITEMIDLIST pidl ;<\/font><\/p>\n

\/\/Get help on BROWSEINFO struct – it’s got all the bit settings.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

bi.hwndOwner = hWnd ;<\/font><\/p>\n

bi.pidlRoot = NULL ;<\/font><\/p>\n

bi.pszDisplayName = szPath ;<\/font><\/p>\n

bi.lpszTitle = pszDisplayName ;<\/font><\/p>\n

\/\/bi.ulFlags = BIF_RETURNFSANCESTORS | BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS |BIF_EDITBOX ;<\/font><\/p>\n

bi.ulFlags = BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS |BIF_VALIDATE ;<\/font><\/p>\n

\/\/ whether you want to display an edit box<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

if<\/font> ( bEdit ) bi.ulFlags = bi.ulFlags | BIF_EDITBOX ;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

bi.lpfn = NULL;   \/\/ No call back function<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

bi.lParam = 0;    \/\/ No Extra parameter<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\/\/ This next call issues the dialog box.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

if<\/font> ((pidl = ::SHBrowseForFolder(&bi)) != NULL)<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

{<\/font><\/p>\n

if<\/font> (::SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, szPath))<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

{ <\/font><\/p>\n

\/\/ At this point pszBuffer contains the selected path  <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

bResult = TRUE ;<\/font><\/p>\n

}<\/font><\/p>\n

\/\/ Free the PIDL allocated by SHBrowseForFolder.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

pMalloc->Free(pidl);<\/font><\/p>\n

}<\/font><\/p>\n

\/\/ Release the shell’s allocator.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

pMalloc->Release();<\/font><\/p>\n

}<\/font><\/p>\n

return<\/font> bResult ;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

}<\/font><\/p>\n

Calling the function.<\/h3>\n

TCHAR szPath [255] ;
_tcscpy ( szPath, "C:\\\\" ) ;
BOOL bSuccess = <\/font>BrowseFolder (<\/font><\/p>\n

this->m_hWnd, <\/font>"Broswe Source Folder", <\/font>FALSE, <\/font>szPath ) ;
if ( bSuccess )
<\/font>{<\/font><\/p>\n

  \/\/ szPath contains the selected folder.<\/strong>
<\/font>}<\/font><\/p>\n

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while working with MFC there are dialog boxes for opening files, but no dialog box to browse  a folder, the function below just does the same. code snippet below shows how one can open a folder browsing dialog box. BOOL BrowseFolder ( HWND hWnd,                \/\/ Handle to the calling window. LPSTR pszDisplayName,      \/\/ Title of… Continue reading Browsing Folders (VC++ 6.0)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codeproject","category-win32","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}