TcxCustomShellBrowserDialog.AbsolutePIDL Property

Returns the selected shell item’s full identifier (PIDL).

Declaration

property AbsolutePIDL: PItemIDList read;

Property Value

Type	Description
PItemIDList	The selected shell item’s full identifier.

Remarks

You can call one of the following functions to obtain the selected shell item’s name:

Function	Unit	Target Shell Items
GetPIDLDisplayName	cxShellListView	Any shell items
GetPidlName	cxShellCommon	Only standard shell items

The following code example invokes the shell browser dialog and saves the selected shell item’s name to the AName variable:

Delphi

var
  AName: string;
begin
  if cxShellBrowserDialog1.Execute then
    AName := GetPIDLDisplayName(cxShellBrowserDialog1.AbsolutePIDL, False);
end;

C++

UnicodeString AName;
if (cxShellBrowserDialog1->Execute())
  AName = GetPIDLDisplayName(cxShellBrowserDialog1->AbsolutePIDL, false);