Re: drive, directory and file list boxes

From:

"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:09:24 -0700

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Hi Ron,

If you are trying to select a file you would use CFileDialog() and if you
are trying to select a folder you can use the SHBrowseForFolder() interface.
Here's a link to a wrapper class for it:

http://www.codeproject.com/dialog/XBrowseForFolder.asp

Both of these list the drives and folders and special folders/devices, but
the CFileDialog also list folders similar to the Explorer method.

Also, you could use a CListBox with this function call:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9hdx240b.aspx

Tom

"Ron" <ron1957@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:444f49a8$0$7527$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...

Since I've never done this before in VC++, I don't know.
Whatever is the usual way (if in fact there is a usual way) to create
drive,
directory and file list boxes in VC++.
I'm not even sure whether there's an MFC Class to do this, or a Win32 API
function to do it. Programming in VisualBasic for so long has insulated me
from such things but now I want to move on from VisualBasic to VC++.

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