.. _FolderSelectDialogA:

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FolderSelectDialogA
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Displays a dialog box that enables the user to select a folder.

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   FolderSelectDialogA PROTO lpszTitle:DWORD, lpszOkLabel:DWORD, lpszFileLabel:DWORD, lpszFolder:DWORD, hWndOwner:DWORD, lpdwFolder:DWORD


**Parameters**

* ``lpszTitle`` - pointer to a string for the title of the select folder dialog.

* ``lpszOkLabel`` - pointer to a string for the ok button in the dialog.

* ``lpszFileLabel`` - pointer to a string for the file label in the dialog.

* ``lpszFolder`` - pointer to a string for the initial folder to start in.

* ``hWndOwner`` - handle of the parent window that owns this dialog.

* ``lpdwFolder`` - pointer to a variable thats stores a pointer to a string containing the folder that was selected by the user.


**Returns**

TRUE if successful, or FALSE otherwise.


**Notes**

This is the Ansi version of FolderSelectDialog. All strings passed as parameters are expected to be Ansi strings, and the return results are stored in the lpdwFolder parameter as a pointer to an Ansi string.

For the Wide/Unicode version see the FolderSelectDialogW function.

FolderSelectDialog Implements the IFileDialog of CLSID_FileOpenDialog

**See Also**

:ref:`FileOpenDialogA<FileOpenDialogA>`, :ref:`FileSaveDialogA<FileSaveDialogA>`