Question

There doesn’t appear to be a simple component available to create a folder selection dialog in Delphi 2009, although a file selection dialog is provided by way of the TOpenDialog.

What is the most common way to create a modern folder selection dialog using Delphi?

Answer 1

There are two overloaded routines in FileCtrl.pas called SelectDirectory

For a modern look, use the second form, with sdNewUI

var
  dir : string;
begin
  dir := 'C:\temp';
  FileCtrl.SelectDirectory('Select', 'C:\', dir, [sdNewFolder, sdNewUI], Self);
end;

NOTE: sdNewFolder, sdNewUI etc are only available from D2006+