DirListBox Relative Path
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From: Greg on 3 Jul 2008 09:08 I'm looking for a way to not show the full path to a directory in a dirlistbox. In other words, it should only show the relative path to the directory I default it to be. We want users to only see "their" directory and nothing above that. I suppose I could do this with a listbox but it seems I would be reinventing the wheel with navigating directory structure in a listbox.
From: Dave O. on 3 Jul 2008 09:30 Hi You can't "do this with a listbox", you will need a TreeView to simulate the view in the DirListBox and the routine to iterate through the folders below a given folder is quite simple if you have ever used the FindFirst, FindNext & FindClose API triplet and depending on how many folders your users might have, the code is really fast. If your users have hundreds of folders you might find it better to rather than iterate all the folders just do the first one or two levels then only read more folders as a node is expanded - This is quite simple, you put a placeholder in as the subdirectory, then before you expand the node check to see if there is a placeholder or a actual folder, if there's the placeholder you read the actual folders and remove the placeholder, sounds complex but if coded well is very fast. Also the Treeview is far more versatile, you can easily add a context menu and allowing users to rename folders is far easier with a TreeView. Regards Dave O. "Greg" <Greg(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:63769F24-BFA1-4D2E-8546-2F1D56E96DD1(a)microsoft.com... > I'm looking for a way to not show the full path to a directory in a > dirlistbox. In other words, it should only show the relative path to the > directory I default it to be. We want users to only see "their" directory > and > nothing above that. > > I suppose I could do this with a listbox but it seems I would be > reinventing > the wheel with navigating directory structure in a listbox.
From: Karl E. Peterson on 3 Jul 2008 14:20
Greg wrote: > I'm looking for a way to not show the full path to a directory in a > dirlistbox. In other words, it should only show the relative path to the > directory I default it to be. We want users to only see "their" directory and > nothing above that. You can use SHBrowseForFolder and set the BROWSEINFO.pidlRoot to point wherever you want. I don't have a good example handy, but you'd use either SHSimpleIDListFromPath or SHGetSpecialFolderLocation to set that value. -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org |