how to list contents of directory of specified type in listbox

See here[^] for an easy solution from Microsoft.

void CDemoDlg::GetDirList(CString sPath)
{
	WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData;
	sTmpPath = sPath;
	sTmpPath += "\\*.*";
	HANDLE hFind = FindFirstFile( sTmpPath, &FindFileData );
	if ( hFind == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
        return;
    else {
		do {
		if ( ( FindFileData.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY ) )
		 {
		// if directory:
		if ( strcmp(".", FindFileData.cFileName ) && strcmp("..", FindFileData.cFileName) ) 
		{
		sTmpPath = sPath;
		sTmpPath += "\\";
		sTmpPath += FindFileData.cFileName;
		GetDirList( sTmpPath);
		}
	} 
	else // if file:
	{
	sTmpPath = sPath;
	sTmpPath += "\\";
	sTmpPath += FindFileData.cFileName;

	m_SongsList.AddString(sTmpPath);/* adding path to the list Box*/
					
            }
        } while ( FindNextFile( hFind, &FindFileData) != 0 );
			  FindClose( hFind );
    }
    return;
}

void CDemoDlg::OnLbnSelchangeListSongs()
{
    int sel;
    CString Song;
    sel=m_SongsList.GetCurSel();
    m_SongsList.GetText(sel,Song);
    PlaySound(Song,NULL, SND_FILENAME|SND_ASYNC);/* Play only .wav form music files*/

}

Solution for the updated question "When the list is displayed in the list box and i select any one item it should open the file how to make it?"

The best option would be adding an 'Open' button to the window containing the list box or using the OK button if the the list box resides in a dialog. From within the button handler (OnOK() with the default OK button), get the selected file name(s) from the list box and proceed. When using the OK button, the file name(s) can be stored in a member variable to be acessed by the code that shows the dialog.

Get the selected file name for a single selection list box:

void CMyDialog::OnOK()
{
    int nSel = m_list.GetCurSel();
    if (nSel < 0) // no file name selected
        return;
    m_list.GetText(nSel, m_strFileName);
    // Calling function will open file
    CDialog::OnOK();
}
void CMyDialog::OnBnClickedOpen()
{
    int nSel = m_list.GetCurSel();
    if (nSel < 0) // no file name selected
        return;
    CString strFileName;
    GetText(nSel, strFileName);
    // Open file here
    OpenFile(strFileName);
}

With a multi selection list box, use GetSelItems() and store the names in a CStringArray.

You may also use a LVN_ITEMCHANGED handler which checks for changed selection state. But this would trigger with every change of the selection (when moving through the list with cursor keys) which is not useful when opening a file at each change.

Hi Y'all

I also had problems using DlgDirList and searched for 2 days on the solution.
I came across this site from MSDN

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh298372(v=vs.85).aspx[^]

and I saw that in the InitDialog part of the code they used DlgDirList.
So I copied this part of the code ofcourse with variable declarations into my own program :

void CTwoFormsDlg::FillList()
{
PTSTR pszCurDir;
TCHAR achBuffer[MAX_PATH];
pszCurDir = (PTSTR)spathOnly.GetString();
SetCurrentDirectory(pszCurDir); // First Set the directory to path
pszCurDir = achBuffer;
GetCurrentDirectory(MAX_PATH, pszCurDir); // Then get the directory path
DlgDirList(pszCurDir, CL_SECLIST, 0, 0);}

Removed SetFocus because this did not work and after all that searching I had no intention to go and look for that again so that you have to figure out yourself.
But the sub works when I press a button that has a call to that function.
Hope this helps.

Changed some things in the code where spathOnly is declared in MyAppDlg.h , CL_SECLIST is de name of the list control.

Greetz

Richard