Thread: Need help with DlgDirList()

Red hat avatar on the Windows board...pah.....

Anyway

That param acts as a search criteria for the listing process and it acts in conjuction with the last param, a DWORD stating what file type ...for example...assuming the last param is

Code:

DDL_READWRITE | DDL_READONLY | DDL_HIDDEN | DDL_ARCHIVE;

"C:\" - will show all files in the root directory

"C:\temp" - will show all files in the temp directory

"C:\*.log" - will how all files in the root dir that end with an extension of .log....

OK....just a test....but are you including the "C:\WhateverDrive" in code, or are you entering it from an edit or whatever at runtime?

If in code, dont forget the extra escape char....ala

"C:\\WhateverDrive"

Before answering the first time I did take 5 minutes to create an example ( I hadnt used this func before....)

Here's part of my code.....its in MFC & its rushed (Hell 40 mins between our posts and I made a cup of tea while doing it!!)....but it should give an idea of how this function can work...

Code:

void CMyDialog::OnOK()
{
CString str;
DWORD dwStyle = DDL_READWRITE | DDL_READONLY |
DDL_HIDDEN | DDL_ARCHIVE;

GetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,str);

if(:: DlgDirList(m_hWnd,str.GetBuffer(0),
IDC_LIST1,IDC_STATIC1,dwStyle) == 0)
MessageBox(_T("Not a valid search path"));

}