Browse and select a specific file

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could you please help me to select the files from inside folder.
when i tried its selection only folder names not files not listing

What I have tried:

BROWSEINFO   bi;
    ZeroMemory(&bi, sizeof(bi));
    TCHAR   szDisplayName[MAX_PATH] = { 0 };
    bi.hwndOwner = NULL;
    bi.pidlRoot = NULL;
    bi.pszDisplayName = szDisplayName;
    bi.lpszTitle = _T("Please select a file  :");
    bi.ulFlags = BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS;
    bi.lParam = NULL;
    bi.iImage = 0;
    LPITEMIDLIST   pidl = SHBrowseForFolder(&bi);
    TCHAR   szPathName[MAX_PATH] = { 0 };
    if (NULL != pidl)
    {
        BOOL bRet = SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, szPathName);
        if (FALSE == bRet)
            return;
    }

the above is showing only folder name
could you please help me here

Posted 19-Dec-17 20:24pm

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Updated 19-Dec-17 20:50pm

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Jochen Arndt · Answer 1 · 2017-12-19T20:50:00

You must show a file selction dialog and not a folder selection dialog as the function name SHBrowseForFolder tells you.

Windows provides common dialogs including a file dialog (see Common Dialogs (Windows)[^]). With MFC you can also use the CFileDialog Class[^] which encapsulates the common file dialog.

woody braun · Answer 2 · 2021-10-07T20:12:00

Solution 2

If You change bi.ulFlags = BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS; to
bi.ulFlags = BIF_BROWSEINCLUDEFILES; you will have also the files in the browsing list!

Posted 7-Oct-21 20:12pm

woody braun

Updated 7-Oct-21 21:31pm

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