Question

Open file dialog box

Asked by: qar

Hello,
I'm just a beginner in MFC and have this problem:
I'm trying to open an open file dialog box with multiple file selection, but for some reason the File Title, File Name fields of the m_ofn structure of the CFileDialog class contains the path and not the file names.
Why?

(I'm working on NT4 using microsoft visual c++ 6)

thanx
qar

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2001-08-21 at 07:59:20ID20171671
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Windows MFC Programming

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Answers

 

by: jhancePosted on 2001-08-21 at 08:14:41ID: 6410260

Can you show your code?

 

by: tvanceplusPosted on 2001-08-21 at 08:19:29ID: 6410278

Here is code that will take a CFileDialog object and read in multiple file selections into a CArray<CString,CString&>.

The array fileNameList will contain the filenames and extensions and the array pathList contains all of the full paths.

In the OPENFILENAME structure the lpstrFileName and lpstrFileTitle fields are only for single select Dialogs.

CArray<CString,CString&> fileNameList;
CArray<CString,CString&> pathList;

CArray<CString,CString&> fileList;
CFileDialog fDlg(TRUE); //open dialog

CString ext;

int lcv;

if(fileDlg.DoModal()==IDOK){

  int place=0;
  int size=0;
  int len;

  LPTSTR string=fDlg.m_ofn.lpstrFile;

  while(string[place]!='\0'){
               
    fileList.SetSize(size+1);

    while(string[place]!='\0'){

      fileList[size]+=string[place];
      ++place;

    }
    ++place;
    ++size;
  }

  len=fileList.GetSize();

  if(len>1){
    for(lcv=1;lcv<len;++lcv){

      ext=fileList[lcv].Right(3);
      ext.MakeUpper();

      if(ext!="EST" && ext!="MAS"){
        fileList.RemoveAt(lcv);
     --lcv;
     --len;
      }
    }

    len=fileList.GetSize();

    if(len<=1) return;

    if(fileList[0][fileList[0].GetLength()-1]!='\\'){
      fileList[0]+='\\';
    }

    for(lcv=1;lcv<len;++lcv){
      fileNameList.Add(fileList[lcv]);
      pathList.Add(fileList[0]+fileList[lcv]);
    }
  }

  else{
    ext=fileDlg.GetFileExt();

    ext.MakeUpper();

    if(ext=="MAS" || ext=="EST"){
      fileNameList.Add(fileDlg.GetFileName());
      pathList.Add(fileDlg.GetPathName());
    }
  }
}

 

by: sedgwickPosted on 2001-08-21 at 08:20:22ID: 6410282

?

 

by: jhancePosted on 2001-08-21 at 08:22:46ID: 6410293

??

 

by: sedgwickPosted on 2001-08-21 at 08:24:12ID: 6410300

qar: here is a class wrapper for multi-selection file dialog.


//header file
#if !defined(AFX_MFILEDLG_H__2268B980_C8BF_4084_98B1_3D162B8FA54B__INCLUDED_)
#define AFX_MFILEDLG_H__2268B980_C8BF_4084_98B1_3D162B8FA54B__INCLUDED_

#if _MSC_VER > 1000
#pragma once
#endif // _MSC_VER > 1000
// MFileDlg.h : header file
//

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CMFileDlg dialog

class CMFileDlg : public CFileDialog
{
     DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CMFileDlg)

public:
     CMFileDlg(BOOL bOpenFileDialog, LPCTSTR lpszDefExt = NULL , LPCTSTR lpszFileName = NULL,
     DWORD dwFlags = OFN_HIDEREADONLY | OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT | OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT,
     LPCTSTR lpszFilter = NULL, CWnd* pParentWnd = NULL) ;

     int DoModal();
     virtual ~CMFileDlg();

protected:
     //{{AFX_MSG(CMFileDlg)
     // NOTE - the ClassWizard will add and remove member functions here.
     //}}AFX_MSG

     TCHAR* m_pszFile;
     DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()

};

//{{AFX_INSERT_LOCATION}}
// Microsoft Visual C++ will insert additional declarations immediately before the previous line.

#endif // !defined(AFX_MFILEDLG_H__2268B980_C8BF_4084_98B1_3D162B8FA54B__INCLUDED_)



//cpp file
// MFileDlg.cpp : implementation file
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "spectraanalisysgui.h"
#include "MFileDlg.h"

#ifdef _DEBUG
#define new DEBUG_NEW
#undef THIS_FILE
static char THIS_FILE[] = __FILE__;
#endif

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CMFileDlg
IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CMFileDlg, CFileDialog)

CMFileDlg::CMFileDlg(BOOL bOpenFileDialog, LPCTSTR lpszDefExt, LPCTSTR lpszFileName,
     DWORD dwFlags, LPCTSTR lpszFilter, CWnd* pParentWnd) :
     CFileDialog(bOpenFileDialog, lpszDefExt, lpszFileName, dwFlags, lpszFilter, pParentWnd)
{
     m_pszFile = new TCHAR[2048]; //set a 2K buffer to hold selected files
     m_pszFile[0] = '\0'; //initialize pointer;
}

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMFileDlg, CFileDialog)
//{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CMFileDlg)
// NOTE - the ClassWizard will add and remove mapping macros here.
//}}AFX_MSG_MAP
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

CMFileDlg::~CMFileDlg()
{
     if (m_pszFile != NULL)
     delete [] m_pszFile; //cleanup
}

int CMFileDlg::DoModal()
{
     ASSERT_VALID(this);
     ASSERT(m_ofn.Flags & OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT); //make sure multiple file selection is on

     m_ofn.lpstrFile = m_pszFile; //initialize the OPENFILENAME structure
     m_ofn.nMaxFile = 2048;

     return CFileDialog::DoModal();
}




an example usage of this class:    

CMFileDlg dlgFile(TRUE);
     CString strPath = GetDocument()->GetPathName();
     int start = strPath.ReverseFind('\\') + 1;
     CString strDir( strPath.Left(start) );
     dlgFile.m_ofn.lpstrTitle = strTitle;
     dlgFile.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir = strDir;
     dlgFile.m_ofn.lpstrDefExt = "bmp";
     dlgFile.m_ofn.lpstrFilter = "Bitmap Files (*.bmp)\0*.bmp\0Gif Files (*.gif)\0*.gif\0Jpeg Files (*.jpeg)\0*.jpeg\0All Files (*.*)\0*.*\0\0";
     dlgFile.m_ofn.hwndOwner = AfxGetMainWnd()->GetSafeHwnd(); //in case of MDI/SDI application only

     if ( dlgFile.DoModal() != IDOK )
          return;


cheers

 

by: tvanceplusPosted on 2001-08-21 at 09:08:13ID: 6410472

Sorry, some of that stuff

if(ext!="MAS" && ext!="EST")

didn't belong. I used that for my code, but I didn't mean to copy it in. The general idea is still right though. Simply change the "MAS" or "EST" to be whatever you filtered the dialog for.

 

by: PacmanPosted on 2001-08-21 at 23:47:58ID: 6412359

gar,

you may reject tvanceplus's answer and post your code so we can tell you what's wrong with your code.

Pacman

 

by: qarPosted on 2001-08-22 at 14:25:38ID: 6415402

Thanx, tvanceplus
Your code works perfectly.
After looking in your code I realized how the file names are stored in the buffer (that's the mistake in my code).

qar

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