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LPWSTR to CString Pointer

Hi,

I have a function that will called :
BOOL BrowseForFile(CString *selName, CString defFilename)

I want to fill the selName with a OPENFILENAME value ofn.lpstrFile. How I can do this?

Ingo

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jkr

BTW, if you are *not* compiling as UNICODE, you'd have to convert to ANSI, i.e.

BOOL BrowseForFile(CString *selName, CString defFilename)
{
OPENFILENAME ofn;

//...

GetOpenFileName(&ofn);

char acAnsi[MAX_PATH];

wcstombs(acAnsi,ofn.lpstrFile,MAX_PATH);

*selName = acAnsi;

return bRC;
}

Deepu Abraham

OPENFILENAME ofn;
GetOpenFileName(&ofn);
..

selName->Format("%s", ofn.lpstrFile);
Should also work.
Best Regards,
DeepuAbrahamK

Jaime Olivares

Look at the BrowseForFile implementation at this page:
http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/ocaml/src/current/win32caml/menu.c

int BrowseForFile(char *fname,char *path)
{
OPENFILENAME ofn;
char *p,tmp[512],browsefor[512];
int r;

memset(tmp,0,sizeof(tmp));
strncpy(tmp,fname,sizeof(tmp)-1);
p = tmp;
while (*p) {
if (*p == '|')
*p = 0;
p++;
}
memset(&ofn,0,sizeof(OPENFILENAME));
ofn.lpstrFilter = tmp;
ofn.nFilterIndex = 1;
ofn.lStructSize = sizeof(OPENFILENAME);
ofn.hwndOwner = hwndMain;
ofn.hInstance = hInst;
ofn.lpstrFilter = tmp;
ofn.lpstrFile = path;
wsprintf(browsefor,"Open %s",fname);
ofn.lpstrTitle = browsefor;
ofn.lpstrInitialDir = "c:\\";
ofn.nMaxFile = MAX_PATH;
ofn.Flags = OFN_PATHMUSTEXIST | OFN_NOCHANGEDIR | OFN_LONGNAMES |
OFN_HIDEREADONLY |OFN_EXPLORER;
r = GetOpenFileName(&ofn);
if (r == 0)
return 0;
else return 1;
}