---- Borland's Delphi Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > I would like to use in my application a dialog box to browse > the folders and to retrive a path. The IDE of Delphi 7 shows > such a box, if you select "Projects/Options/Directories" and > then you click on the Ellipsis button (...) of Output > Directory, then a dialog box is shown in which you can > browse the directories and choose your output directory. I > would like such a dialog box to reztrieve a path which I can > use later in my application. > > Is such a component available? The components which are > offered by the component palette are all more specialized. > Have I to develope a new component? Which is the best way to > learn to do this? The Win32 "Browse for Folder" functionality that you're referring is actually performed by an API called SHBrowseForFolder().
There are many, many component wrappers for that available on the NET; many of them free. Here's a couple of sites that show how to prepare for and call SHBrowseForFolder() directly from Delphi code (it's not particularly complicated): http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/delphi/howto_browseforfolder.htm http://www.festra.com/eng/snip01.htm You may not ever want to do that given how many component implementations are out there; but it's instructive to see what's actually going on behind the scenes. Beyond that I'd suggest doing a search on Torry's or DSP for "Browse for Folder" and/or "SHBrowseForFolder" and you should get plenty of hits. HTH Stephen Posey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
