On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Mukenx <muk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to use the filenamedialog routine to select folders instead
> of files? If not, I would liketo open a feature request.
>
You should open a feature request. The API used for the fileNameDialog
routine doesn't support selecting folders
>
> I could not find any specific option to achieve this in the documentation.
> Msdn says there is an option for IFileDialog:
> FOS_PICKFOLDERS (0x00000020)
> Present the Open dialog offering a choice of folders rather than files.
>
IFileDialog is the COM interface. It is what BrowseForFolder uses under
the covers I'm pretty sure,
>
> To date I have used the Windows Shell BrowseForFolder dialog, which seems
> to have the limitation that when a default folder is given, the user cannot
> browser the folders upwards, which is a serious limitation.
>
I believe that is supposed to be a feature. Prevents the users from going
where you don't want them.
I have code in the incubator for a browse for folders interface. It would
be relatively easy to bring it over to ooDialog. It has been a while since
I looked at it, but I don't remember that it had that limitation.
--
Mark Miesfeld
>
> Thanks,
> Madou
>
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