Can anyone give an example code of SHBrowseForFolder function???

[3hMz8vqX]

Hi all,
Can anyone give an example code of SHBrowseForFolder function???

Thankyou everyone in advance:)

[LB]

The first Google search result is the MSDN site, which has a full example written years ago specifically for you:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762115(v=vs.85).aspx

See below post.

[andywestken]

Perversely, the code samples in the MSDN entry for SHBrowseForFolder do not show the basic usage (or any other usage) of the function.

But this page does:

How is SHBrowseForFolder() used?
http://vcfaq.mvps.org/sdk/20.htm

    BROWSEINFO bi = { 0 };
    bi.lpszTitle = _T("Pick a Directory");
    LPITEMIDLIST pidl = SHBrowseForFolder ( &bi );
    if ( pidl != 0 )
    {
        // get the name of the folder
        TCHAR path[MAX_PATH];
        if ( SHGetPathFromIDList ( pidl, path ) )
        {
            _tprintf ( _T("Selected Folder: %s\n"), path );
        }

        // free memory used
        IMalloc * imalloc = 0;
        if ( SUCCEEDED( SHGetMalloc ( &imalloc )) )
        {
            imalloc->Free ( pidl );
            imalloc->Release ( );
        }
    }

(Note that this code is backward compatible with Windows 95/Windows NT 4.0. If you only need to support Windows 2000 and newer, then pidl can be freed using CoTaskMemFree.)

Andy

PS And as SHBrowseForFolder is a COM based function, you need to call CoInitializeEx (with COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED), CoInitialize, or OleInitialize before you use it. And CoUninititialize/OleUninititialize after you're done with it.