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- Align a Dialog Box in Upper Right
- Automatically Number Dialog Controls
- Bitmaps in a Dialog Box
- Centering and Size Dialog Editor Boxes
- Changing Tab Order in Dialog
- Choosing a Directory in a Dialog
- Determine if All or None of Items are Selected
- Determine User Specified Color in Dialog
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- Dialog Boxes and CTL3DV2.DLL
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- Dialog Editor which button was pushed
- Dialogbox Creation Failed Error 3104
- Displaying Contents of a File in ItemBox
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- Select an Item by Default in ItemSelect Listbox
- Send Email with dialog
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- Slow Startup of Dialog on Some Machines
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Choosing a Directory in a dialog
Keywords: choosing Directory dialog
Question:
In an application i'm writing, i'm required to have a UI that asks the user to specify a directory. What is the best way to go about choosing a Directory in a dialog? I've tried the following, but it changes the value to NOFILESELECTED. Any ideas?
IntControl(4, 0, 0, 0, 0)
disks=`*.`
HomeDirDialogFormat=`WWWDLGED,5.0`
HomeDirDialogCaption=`Choose the directory`
HomeDirDialogX=284
HomeDirDialogY=85
HomeDirDialogWidth=159
HomeDirDialogHeight=118
HomeDirDialogNumControls=3
HomeDirDialog01=`6,16,80,54,FILELISTBOX,disks,DEFAULT`
HomeDirDialog02=`62,84,64,DEFAULT,PUSHBUTTON,DEFAULT,"&Ok",1`
HomeDirDialog03=`6,2,148,DEFAULT,VARYTEXT,disks,""`
ButtonPushed=Dialog("HomeDirDialog")
message(`You chose`,disks)
Answer:
A side effect of working through the directories is that the current WinBatch directory also changes. You can ignore the "NOFILESSELECTED" by doing the following. It's the same as yours except for the last couple of lines.
IntControl(4, 0, 0, 0, 0)
disks=`c:\*.`
HomeDirDialogFormat=`WWWDLGED,5.0`
HomeDirDialogCaption=`Choose the directory`
HomeDirDialogX=284
HomeDirDialogY=85
HomeDirDialogWidth=159
HomeDirDialogHeight=118
HomeDirDialogNumControls=3
HomeDirDialog01=`6,16,80,54,FILELISTBOX,disks,DEFAULT`
HomeDirDialog02=`62,84,64,DEFAULT,PUSHBUTTON,DEFAULT,"&Ok",1`
HomeDirDialog03=`6,2,148,DEFAULT,VARYTEXT,disks,""`
ButtonPushed=Dialog("HomeDirDialog")
disks=DirGet() ;;;;;;;;;;Da magic
message(`You chose`,disks)
Question:
I've tried the example above, but it's not really what I'm looking for. I want to display directories only. The FileListBox displays both files and directories. How do I do this?Answer:
The FILELISTBOX is designed to display both files and directories. You can use ITEMBOX if you want to only display directories (using a variable assigned to DirItemize). It'll work, but it's not as smart as FILELISTBOX, in terms of not knowing how to update the EDITBOX, like FILELISTBOX would.Here are two examples of using the dialog editor.
In the first example, the FILELISTBOX is used in combination with the EDITBOX control which can have the same variable name as the FILELISTBOX. If you do, the user can type a file mask into the EDITBOX which will cause the FILELISTBOX to be redrawn with the display only those files that match the new file mask specification. Also in combination with the FILELISTBOX, you can use the VARYTEXT control, which may also use the same variable as the FILELISTBOX. If you do so, the VARYTEXT will display the current directory as displayed in the FILELISTBOX. For FILELISTBOX, the last parameter must be DEFAULT. The FileListBox doesn't display directories only, even if you use the DirItemize function. It's not designed that way.
In the second example, the ITEMBOX control is used with DirItemize.
Here's the FILELISTBOX Method:
Dirchange("D:\TEMP\")
intcontrol(4,0,0,0,0)
dirs=FileItemize("*.*")
joedialogFormat=`WWWDLGED,5.0`
joedialogCaption=`Choose a Directory`
joedialogX=2
joedialogY=21
joedialogWidth=146
joedialogHeight=206
joedialogNumControls=6
joedialog01=`6,26,64,DEFAULT,EDITBOX,dirs,"*."`
joedialog02=`6,44,134,122,FILELISTBOX,dirs,DEFAULT`
joedialog03=`6,8,64,DEFAULT,VARYTEXT,dirs,"Choose a Directory"`
joedialog04=`74,28,64,DEFAULT,CHECKBOX,makeadir,"Create Directory",1`
joedialog05=`6,186,64,DEFAULT,PUSHBUTTON,DEFAULT,"&Ok",1`
joedialog06=`76,186,64,DEFAULT,PUSHBUTTON,DEFAULT,"&Cancel",0`
ButtonPushed=Dialog("joedialog")
message(`You chose the directory`,dirs)
if makeadir == 1
if !DirExist(dirs) then DirMake(dirs)
endif
And here's the ITEMBOX Method:
Note that inlike FILELISTBOX, the ITEMBOX control cannot share the same variables as the EDITBOX and VARYTEXT controls.
Dirchange("D:\TEMP\")
intcontrol(4,0,0,0,0)
dirs=DirItemize("*.*")
joedialogFormat=`WWWDLGED,5.0`
joedialogCaption=`Choose a Directory`
joedialogX=2
joedialogY=21
joedialogWidth=146
joedialogHeight=206
joedialogNumControls=6
joedialog01=`6,26,64,DEFAULT,EDITBOX,xdirs,"*."`
joedialog02=`6,44,134,122,ITEMBOX,dirs,dirs`
joedialog03=`6,8,64,DEFAULT,VARYTEXT,ydirs,"Choose a Directory"`
joedialog04=`74,28,64,DEFAULT,CHECKBOX,makeadir,"Create Directory",1`
joedialog05=`6,186,64,DEFAULT,PUSHBUTTON,DEFAULT,"&Ok",1`
joedialog06=`76,186,64,DEFAULT,PUSHBUTTON,DEFAULT,"&Cancel",0`
ButtonPushed=Dialog("joedialog")
message(`You chose the directory`,dirs)
if makeadir == 1
if !DirExist(dirs) then DirMake(dirs)
endif
Article ID: W12831
Filename: Choosing a Directory in a Dialog.txt
File Created: 1999:04:15:16:49:56
Last Updated: 1999:04:15:16:49:56