dynamic display of path and file name of selected file

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Hi all,

I have a file open dialog box which allows the user to select a file from the drive. I need to display the path and file name of the selected file dynamically as and when the user selects in the title bar of the form.

For ex:

C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\My Pictures

In the above example I need to dynamically display each of these when user selects.

c:\Documents and Settings
c:\Documents and Settings\My Documents
c:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\My Pictures etc..

Can you help me?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 9-Oct-11 22:41pm

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Updated 9-Oct-11 22:46pm

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Mehdi Gholam · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-09T22:50:00

Solution 1

You change the form title text with the code below:

C#

// in your file select handler
this.Text = selectedfilename;

Posted 9-Oct-11 22:50pm

Mehdi Gholam

MZwahlen · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-09T22:55:00

Solution 2

You can't do that dynamically for each subfolder, only for the fileOk event

There is no event for the selection of folders...
The OpenFileDialogClass is sealed, so you can't make a custom Dialog easily...

Posted 9-Oct-11 22:55pm

MZwahlen

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Member 7979279 10-Oct-11 5:10am

Ok then how do I do it for a selected file path as a whole if not for sub folder paths.. Is that possible???

MZwahlen 10-Oct-11 5:22am

try this:
var diag = new OpenFileDialog();
var diagResult = diag.ShowDialog();

if(diagResult == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK) {
this.Text = diag.FileName;
}

Member 7979279 10-Oct-11 5:31am

Thanks loads....Its working Fine :) :) :)