Hi Guys,
What should I do so that i can select more than one File(s) in a common dialog control. For example in Winamp or Windows Media Player you can select more than one file by Pressing Ctrl + Click by mouse or Shift + Up (or) down Arrow by keyboard. And I would also like to know that how will it return the file names. for ex. while selecting a single file we can get like ,commondialog1.filename=something.filename . Any help appreciated greatly.
as much as i remember, the return will be the filenames separated with chr(0).
if u use VB6, use name=split(names, chr(0)) to get an array of the values, but the first value name(0) will contain the path name only.
to get a file name use
filename = name(0) & name(x) 'while x>0
[code]Code:cd.Flags = cdlOFNAllowMultiselect
OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT
Specifies that the File Name list box allows multiple selections. If you also set the OFN_EXPLORER flag, the dialog box uses the Explorer-style user interface; otherwise, it uses the old-style user interface.
If the user selects more than one file, the lpstrFile buffer returns the path to the current directory followed by the filenames of the selected files. The nFileOffset member is the offset, in bytes or characters, to the first filename, and the nFileExtension member is not used. For Explorer-style dialog boxes, the directory and filename strings are NULL separated, with an extra NULL character after the last filename. This format enables the Explorer-style dialogs to return long filenames that include spaces. For old-style dialog boxes, the directory and filename strings are separated by spaces and the function uses short filenames for filenames with spaces. You can use theFindFirstFile function to convert between long and short filenames.
If you specify a custom template for an old-style dialog box, the definition of the File Name list box must contain the LBS_EXTENDEDSEL value.
cdlOFNAllowMultiselect &H200 Specifies that the File Namelist box allows multiple selections.
The user can select more than one file atrun time by pressing the SHIFT key and using the UP ARROW and DOWN ARROW keys to select the desired files. When this is done, the FileName property returns a string containing the names of all selected files. The names in the string are delimited by spaces.
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Hi Vlatko,
Thanks for ur help. Now I'm able to select more than one file in a Explorer style Common Dialog. But I'm getting some strange Problems in splitting the returned Filename. The filename is just the Path and there's nothing like what u told like the Long Filenames. Can u give me a small example on how to split the Filenames from the Selected files. One more Help please. Please see the following thread and if you have any idea please help me.
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...threadid=78907