Adding Toolbar button in CFileDialog

This article will show you how to add a Toolbar button in CFileDialog’s Toolbar. Here is the sample code:

CONST LONG ID_NEW_BUTTON = 40790L;  // Command ID of new
                                    // Toolbar button.
class CFileDialogEx : public CFileDialog
{
   DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CFileDialogEx)
  public:
     CFileDialogEx(BOOL bOpenFileDialog, // TRUE for FileOpen,
                                         // FALSE for FileSaveAs
     LPCTSTR lpszDefExt = NULL,
     LPCTSTR lpszFileName = NULL,
     DWORD dwFlags = OFN_HIDEREADONLY | OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT,
                     LPCTSTR lpszFilter = NULL,
                     CWnd* pParentWnd = NULL);
  protected:
     virtual void OnInitDone();
     void OnNewTBClick();
     static LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcNew(HWND hwnd,
                                           UINT message,
                                           WPARAM wParam,
                                           LPARAM lParam);
  public:
     static WNDPROC m_wndProc;
};
WNDPROC CFileDialogEx::m_wndProc;
IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CFileDialogEx, CFileDialog)
CFileDialogEx:: CFileDialogEx (BOOL bOpenFileDialog,
                               LPCTSTR lpszDefExt,
                               LPCTSTR lpszFileName,
                               DWORD dwFlags,
                               LPCTSTR lpszFilter,
                               CWnd*
                               pParentWnd) :
                               CFileDialog(bOpenFileDialog,
                                           lpszDefExt,
                                           lpszFileName,
                                           dwFlags,
                                           lpszFilter,
                                           pParentWnd)
{
}
void CFileDialogEx::OnInitDone()
{
   CWnd* wndParent = GetParent();
   ASSERT(wndParent != NULL);

   // Display File dialog in center
   wndParent->CenterWindow();

   // Implementation of Toolbar in file dialog is
   // in class “ToolbarWindow32”. We get the toolbar
   // by looping through all CFileDialog child
   // controls and getting their class name.

   TCHAR strClassName[255];
   CWnd* wndChild = wndParent->GetWindow(GW_CHILD);
   while( wndChild != NULL )
   {
      // Get the class name of child control
      ::GetClassName(wndChild->GetSafeHwnd(), strClassName, 255);

      // if child control is toolbar then we add a button in it.

      if( _tcscmp(_T(“ToolbarWindow32”), strClassName) == 0 )
      {
         CToolBarCtrl* pToolbarCtrl = (CToolBarCtrl*)wndChild;
         ASSERT(pToolbarCtrl != NULL);

         // Get the number of buttons in existing
         // toolbar control.
         int nButCount = pToolbarCtrl->GetButtonCount();

         // Add a new button in it. 
         IDB_NEW_BUTTON is a bitmap resource
         pToolbarCtrl->AddBitmap(1, IDB_NEW_BUTTON);

         // get the number of images in existing toolbar
         int nImageCount =
              pToolbarCtrl->GetImageList()->GetImageCount();

         // Define a new button
         TBBUTTON tb;
 
         // Index of new button image.
         tb.iBitmap = nImageCount-1;

         // Command associated with toolbar button
         tb.idCommand = ID_NEW_BUTTON;

         // Setting button state
         tb.fsState = TBSTATE_ENABLED;

         // Setting button style
         tb.fsStyle = TBSTYLE_BUTTON;
         tb.dwData = 0;
         tb.iString = NULL;

         // Insert it in existing toolbar control
         pToolbarCtrl->InsertButton(nButCount, &tb);
         break;
      }
      wndChild = wndChild->GetNextWindow();
   }

   // setup parent window procedure to capture the
   // mouse click event of Toolbar button//
   m_wndProc = (WNDPROC)SetWindowLong(wndParent->GetSafeHwnd(),
                            GWL_WNDPROC,
                            (LONG)CFileDialogEx::WindowProcNew);
}
static CFileDialogEx* GetFileDlg (HWND hwdParent)
{
   CFileDialog* pDlg =
         (CFileDialog*)CWnd::FromHandle (hwdParent);
   ASSERT (pDlg != NULL);
   CFileDialogEx* pFD = (CFileDialogEx*) pDlg->GetDlgItem(0);
   ASSERT (pFD != NULL);
   return pFD;
}
LRESULT CALLBACK CFileDialogEx::WindowProcNew(HWND hwnd,
                                              UINT message,
                                              WPARAM wParam,
                                              LPARAM lParam)
{
   switch(message)
   {
      case WM_COMMAND:
        if ( (LONG) LOWORD(wParam) == ID_NEW_BUTTON )
        {
            CFileDialogEx * pFD =  GetFileDlg(hwnd);
            pFD->OnNewTBClick ();
            return 0;
        }
     }
     return CallWindowProc(CFileDialogEx::m_wndProc,
                           hwnd,
                           message,
                           wParam,
                           lParam);
}
void CFileDialogEx::OnNewTBClick ()
{
   AfxMessageBox(“You clicked on new Toolbar button”);
}

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