WTL Hybrid Edit Control that Combines Edit Control and Button Control

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Introduction

Using the Control

To use this control in your application:

1. Add the WtlEditBrowserCtrl.h and WtlEditBrowserCtrl.cpp files to your project.
2. Design the dialog and add the Edit control
3. Add the WtlEditBrowserCtrl.h header file to your project
4. Assign a CWtlEditBrowserCtrl to your editbox.
5. In OnInitDialog(), subclass CWtlEditBrowserCtrl control to ID using the SubclassWindow method.

#include "WtlEditBrowserCtrl.h"

//...

class CMainDlg : public CDialogImpl<CMainDlg>
{     
    BEGIN_MSG_MAP(CMainDlg)          
       ...          
       MESSAGE_HANDLER(WM_INITDIALOG, OnInitDialog)          
       REFLECT_NOTIFICATIONS()     
    END_MSG_MAP()
    ...
    LRESULT OnInitDialog(UINT /*uMsg*/, WPARAM /*wParam*/, 
        LPARAM /*lParam*/, BOOL& /*bHandled*/);
    ...
    CWtlEditBrowserCtrl m_Path;     
    ...
}; 

//...

LRESULT CMainDlg::OnInitDialog(UINT /*uMsg*/, WPARAM /*wParam*/, 
      LPARAM /*lParam*/, BOOL& /*bHandled*/) 
{
     ...     
     m_Path.SubclassWindow( ::GetDlgItem( m_hWnd, IDC_EDIT1 ) );     
     ...
}

Requirements

You will require the WTL Libraries, these can be downloaded from the microsoft site.

Acknowledgements

I'd like to thank Pete Arends for his original controls :-

• http://www.codeproject.com/editctrl/fileeditctrl.asp

I'd also like to thank the others who have given feedback, made suggestions, and helped this become what it is today:

• Boris Kropivnitsky
• Andrew Fedoniouk ( http://www.terra-informatica.org/ )
• Sergei Zotin

Contacting the Author

Ilya Solnyshkin, E-mail: isolnyshkin@yahoo.com, Web: http://www.printsniffer.com/

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