MFC EditBrowse Control for multi selection.

Question

Hi.

I am quite new to MFC App designing. I want to develop a simple UI to open multiple files (images).

How can I enable EditBrowse control button for multiple files to get names of more than one files?

Thanks in advance.

Faizullah

Answer 1

Hello,
as far as I know, the MFC EditBrowse Control only supports one file or one directory. There is no flag to enable multiple file selection.
Read the documentation: cmfceditbrowsectrl-class
You could for example use a listbox to show multiple files and a mfc browse control to add one more file to the listbox.
Regards, Guido

Answer 2

From the documentation for CMFCEditBrowseCtrl Class :

void EnableFileBrowseButton(
    LPCTSTR lpszDefExt=NULL,
    LPCTSTR lpszFilter=NULL,
    DWORD dwFlags = OFN_HIDEREADONLY | OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT);

Use this member function and include OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT in the flags argument. It works just as in CFileDialog.