Select Folder dialog

The SelectFolder.zip file contains the SelectFolder.exe whose
output is shown in the above picture. The "Options of Select
Folder dialog" dialog shown in the above picture, shows the
capabilities of the CSelectFolder class

Environment: Visual C++5, Windows NT 4 (SP3)

This Select Folder dialog was originally done by

Mihai Filimon. I have added the following features –

1. Added a edit control where the user can type in the path
2. If the path typed in the edit ctrl does not exist then
   the user will be propmted as to whether he/she wants the
   path to be created
3. Setting the flag bShowFilesInDir to TRUE will result in
   all the files in the current folder to be displayed in
   the dialog
4. If you don’t want to display all the files then you can use
   the file filter to display the file types you want to
   display

Some more additional features

1. Calling API SetTitle with the desired title will set the
   Title of the dialog. This API has to be invoked before
   DoModal is called
2. User can pass the Initial Folder to be displayed in the
   constructor of CSelectFolder

Constructor

CSelectFolderDialog(BOOL bShowFilesInDir = FALSE, LPCSTR
lpcstrInitialDir = NULL, DWORD dwFlags = OFN_HIDEREADONLY |
OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT,LPCTSTR lpszFilter = NULL, CWnd* pParentWnd =
NULL);

Usage Examples

• CSelectFolderDialog oSelectFolderDialog(FALSE,
  NULL,OFN_HIDEREADONLY | OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT,NULL, NULL);

• CSelectFolderDialog oSelectFolderDialog(FALSE,
  "c:\\my documents",OFN_HIDEREADONLY |
  OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT,NULL, NULL);

• CSelectFolderDialog oSelectFolderDialog(TRUE,
  "c:\\my documents",OFN_HIDEREADONLY |
  OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT,NULL, NULL);

• CSelectFolderDialog oSelectFolderDialog(TRUE,
  "c:\\my documents",OFN_HIDEREADONLY |
  OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT,"Microsoft Word Documents
  (*.doc)|*.doc|Microsoft Excel Worksheets
  (*.xls)|*.xls|", NULL);

• CSelectFolderDialog oSelectFolderDialog(TRUE,
  "c:\\my documents",OFN_HIDEREADONLY |
  OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT,"HTML Files (*.html,
  *.htm)|*.html;*.htm||", NULL);

Heres a complete example on how i got the select
folder dialog shown in the above picture

CSelectFolderDialog oSelectFolderDialog(TRUE, "C:\WINNT", OFN_HIDEREADONLY |
 OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT, "Microsoft Word Documents (*.doc)|*.doc|Microsoft Excel
 Worksheets (*.xls)|*.xls|", this);
if (oSelectFolderDialog.DoModal() == IDOK)
 AfxMessageBox(oSelectFolderDialog.GetSelectedPath());

Downloads

Download demo project – 27 Kb