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Article #6807Re: SHBrowseForFolder help
From: Vladimir Stefanovic
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:50
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:50
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Under Project/Options/Directories-Co�nditionals (if u use BCB5&6 I think) you should define: NO_WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN You haven't looked deep about the folder creation: http://tinyurl.com/64xz3 go to: http://groups-beta.google.com/ and type in: cppbuilder SHBrowseForFolder for the rest of the threads. -- Best regards, Vladimir Stefanovic "Blake Young" <blakeyoung@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message news:425ade83$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > First of all, I know this has been done to death in the past, but I > couldn't find any topics using search, so I figured I'd have to ask again. > > As you might imagine, I'm trying to find a clean and professional looking > way of allowing users to browse for folders. I've tried the VCL > SelectDirectory function, but unforunately I think it looks only about 2 > degrees removed from the hideous days of Windows 3.1. I actually have a > functional folder brower in my program, but it's using the DirectoryList > component and it doesn't offer some features I'm looking for. The main > thing I need is the ability to create a new folder on-the-spot (i.e. while > the user is browsing). I believe that SHBrowseForFolder gives me this > option, but unfortunately I cannot get it to compile. I'm getting an > error about BROWSEINFO not being indentified. I've tried including > windows.h but that doesn't help. I've also tried including shlobj.h but > then I get errors about multiple declarations. So, I was just curious as > to what exactly needed to be included (or linked, if necessary) to get > SHBrowseForFolder to work. > > To be honest, this is the ideal folder browser I'd like (from MS Visual > Studio): > https://webspace.utexas.edu/youngba2/www/folder_browse.jpg > > > Thanks > Blake >
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