topic Re: FolderBrowserDialog in .NET Forum

FolderBrowserDialog

Moshe-A — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 07:45:20 GMT

Hi Guys,

i'm writing a small c# program that creates a script file to be run from outside AutoCAD and have this issue:

(the script will be running on series of dwg files)

FolderBrowserDialog class (see the picture) under Microsoft VS 2015 comunity version

i would like to change the Captain text + delete the extra empty line in the Description field and i can not find how?

(can not find the fields to change in the properties pane for the FolderBrowserDialog in VS)

thanks in advance

Moshe

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

fieldguy — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:34:31 GMT

Maybe you can? I have not tried this. >>here<<

That's probably easier than creating your own. >>here<<

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

Moshe-A — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 20:02:46 GMT

thanks Fieldguy

it looks like heavy solution to simple problem

what about deleting the empty description line?

i will try that later and inform here

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

fieldguy — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 20:58:07 GMT

i agree with the heavy solution to a simple problem. maybe there is public domain library that offers an alternative. it looks like the WPF control offers more flexibility but i could be wrong.

there is an alternative >>here<<

>>what about deleting the empty description line?<<

i don't think you can. i believe the height of the space between the title and the tree view will never change (if that's what you are referring to) - regardless of the length of the text (0 to many characters). the few form controls are anchored top left and the description field text wraps.

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

Moshe-A — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 05:14:00 GMT

fieldguy,

check (acet-ui-pickdir) lisp function from express tools, this one let us do exactly what i want.

Moshe

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

fieldguy — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:56:49 GMT

you should mark your solution as accepted

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

Moshe-A — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:35:40 GMT

Solusion? i still not have it

(acet-ui-pickdir) is inside AutoCAD, my program is from outside AutoCAD

and if there is a way to use this function from outside, i do not know how

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

_gile — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:59:30 GMT

Hi,

            var browser = new FolderBrowserDialog();
            browser.ShowNewFolderButton = false;
            browser.ShowDialog();

displays the same as (acet-ui-pickdir)

            var browser = new FolderBrowserDialog();
            browser.Description = "Some description";
            browser.ShowNewFolderButton = false;
            browser.ShowDialog();

displays the same as (acet-ui-pickdir "Some description")

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

Moshe-A — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:11:21 GMT

sorry _glie but this is not exactly right. here the (acet-ui-picdir) format:

(acet-ui-pickdir [message [startDir [caption]]])

Displays a directory selection dialog.

Arguments
message: If provided, a message to be displayed in the space above the directory tree control.
startDir: If provided, the initial directory to be selected.
caption: If provided, the dialog caption.

Return Values
A string containing the name of the selected directory, or nil if the dialog was canceled.

i agree we can change the description but i am looking for captain args

this is how i want FolderBrowserDialog to be (picture from acet-ui-pickdir )

(note that decripton field has only 1 line where FolderBrowserDialog displays 2 lines)

thanks

Moshe

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

_gile — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:51:33 GMT

As far as I know, there's no way to change the caption/title of the System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog.

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

Moshe-A — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:56:25 GMT

thank you

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

zputman — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 04:44:29 GMT

I use the CommonOpenFileDialog from the Windows 7 API Code Pack on NuGet. It was published by Microsoft and I have had no problems with it. The dialog looks like the picture below. I hated not having the address bar or favorites of the other options.

Re: FolderBrowserDialog

BKSpurgeon — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:41:14 GMT

Yes this can't be understated:

otherwise the select folder dialog box will open up at the root folder and that too, without menus and favourites. If this is repetitive action, it will grow old, very quickly.

This stack overflow answer was particularly helpful:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/41511598/4880924