initing BROWSEINFO for SHBrowseForFolder

[sperlis]

Hi everyone.
I'm having dificulties initializing the pidlRoot variable in the BROWSEINFO struct with my own path.
Does anyone have a good (i.e. clear - reading the MSDN just takes me in circles...) explanation of how to use and create ITEMIDLIST? (for a specific path, not a known shell CIDL).

Thanks,

[RussG1]

You can use SHParseDisplayName to create that value for you.
i.e.

LPITEMIDLIST pItemIDList = new ITEMIDLIST;
// the path you want to convert
LPCWSTR pszName = L"C:\\Windows";
SHParseDisplayName(pszName, 0, &pItemIDList, 0, 0);
// then set the pidlroot value of your BROWSEINFO var
browseInfo.pidlRoot = pItemIDList;

[sperlis]

GREAT!
Thanks. I'm rather new to Shell API, and the MSDN was taking me around in circles.
There is a little mater of version competability (for VS6 the MicroSoft SDK is required) but it works great!.

Thanks again.