Question

I have a CFolderDialog and I want to set some text for it. I’ve tried derivating another class from it and set the text at initialization but it does not seem to work. Here’s the sample:

class BackupLocationDialog : public CFolderDialog
{
public:
    void BackupLocationDialog::OnInitialized()
    {
        BackupLocationDialog::SetStatusText(_T("A HORSE"));
    }
};

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas ?

Answer 1

Here is good example CFolderDialog – Selecting Folders, you can find here how to set text. Just download Source code open FolderDlg.cpp and I hope you will find answer.

Pay attention on this part of code in FolderDlg.cpp file:

VOID CFolderDialog::SetStatusText( IN LPCTSTR pszText )
{
    ASSERT( m_hWnd != NULL );

    ::SendMessage( 
        m_hWnd, BFFM_SETSTATUSTEXT, 
        (WPARAM)0, (LPARAM)pszText
    );
}