Need help with creating 'standard' file open dialog

[Vonny232]

Hi, I am aware there are several articles on "modifying" and "Enhancing" the standard fileOpen Dialog but I havent found anything on creating a fileopen dialog in the first place.

I dont know if you have to create all the combobox controls etc yourself or there is some pre-defined template.

Any pointers*?

[VictorN]

MSDN -> Search for CFileDialog Enhancing.
If this will be not enouph then be more clear which additional features you want to implement in the standard File open/close dialog

[wayside]

It's easier than you think if you are using MFC:

  CFileDialog fileDlg(TRUE, L"txt", L"foo.txt");
  // Display the file dialog. When user clicks OK, fileDlg.DoModal() 
  // returns IDOK.
  if( fileDlg.DoModal ()==IDOK )
  {
     CString filename =  fileDlg.GetPathName();
     ...
  }

For non-MFC it is slightly trickier, but straightforward:

OPENFILENAME ofn;       // common dialog box structure
char szFile[260];       // buffer for file name
HWND hwnd;              // owner window
HANDLE hf;              // file handle

// Initialize OPENFILENAME
ZeroMemory(&ofn, sizeof(ofn));
ofn.lStructSize = sizeof(ofn);
ofn.hwndOwner = hwnd;
ofn.lpstrFile = szFile;

// Set lpstrFile[0] to '\0' so that GetOpenFileName does not 
// use the contents of szFile to initialize itself.
ofn.lpstrFile[0] = '\0';
ofn.nMaxFile = sizeof(szFile);
ofn.lpstrFilter = "Text\0*.TXT\0";
ofn.nFilterIndex = 1;
ofn.lpstrFileTitle = NULL;
ofn.nMaxFileTitle = 0;
ofn.lpstrInitialDir = NULL;
ofn.Flags = OFN_PATHMUSTEXIST | OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST;

// Display the Open dialog box. 
if (GetOpenFileName(&ofn)==TRUE) {
    ...
    ofn.lpstrFile contains the file name
}

[Vonny232]

Cool, its working now

It doesent like This part:
OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST| szFilters, this);

taken from

// szFilters is a text string that includes two file name filters:
// "*.my" for "MyType Files" and "*.*' for "All Files."
TCHAR CChildFrame::szFilters[]=
"_T(MyType Files (*.my)|*.my|All Files (*.*)|*.*||");

// Create an Open dialog; the default file name extension is ".my".
CFileDialog fileDlg (TRUE, _T("my"), _T("*.my"),
OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST| szFilters, this);

but i dont mind just using

map_open fileDlg (TRUE, _T("my"), _T("*.jpg"));// OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST| szFilters, this); and commenting out the "Type" filter

[wayside]

Originally posted by Vonny232
It doesent like This part:
OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST| szFilters, this);

Should be OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST , szFilters