Creating Sub folder

Suresh H

I was trying to create main and sub folder at a time so that was the problem Now I changed my code as below , now its working correctly..

= "C:\\A"; char buf1[ ] = "C:\\A\\B” ret = PathFileExists(buf); if(ret == 0) { CreateDirectory(buf,NULL); CreateDirectory(buf1,NULL); }

Thank you WhiteSky , brahmma & Prasad for yr help.

Hamid Taebi

One question you want to use of

= "C:\\A";

= "C:\\A\\B"

= "C:\\A\\B\\C"

...
...

= "C:\\A\\B\\C\\...T"

WhiteSky

Suresh H

Yes that is the problem ...:(

Hamid Taebi

if you know folers name use of String Table of course before this if your folders are like a b c d...ab ac dc,... use of numbers and convert numbers with itoa or CString::Format forPathFileExists then you can check and create 28 folder with a loop (I think you use of a b c d),but if you different names use of String Table and insert folders name on it and read of it ;)

WhiteSky

Rajesh R Subramanian

That is some dumb way of doing things. What if you have a 14 folders intermediate to create the innermost folder? Use SHCreateDirectory() or SHCreateDirectoryEx() instead.

SHCreateDirectory(NULL, TEXT("D:\\Hi there\\Good luck"));

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Rajesh R Subramanian

Bad advise. Please see here[^]

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Suresh H

Thanks WhiteSky ......I will do the same ...;)

Suresh H

Hi brahmma, I am getting undeclared identifier, we have to include any header or lib file ??? SHCreateDirectory(NULL, TEXT("C:\\A\\B\\C")); SHCreateDirectoryEx(NULL, TEXT("C:\\A\\B\\C")); error C2065: 'SHCreateDirectory' : undeclared identifier error C2065: 'SHCreateDirectoryEx' : undeclared identifier

Rajesh R Subramanian

Suresh H wrote:

we have to include any header or lib file ???

#include "shlobj.h" and you need to link to shell32.lib

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prasad_som

Good one !

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Suresh H

hi Brahmma , I added shell32.lib to project settings, but still i am getting the same error and also i ahve included #include "shlobj.h" . can u plz tell me what is the cause ??

Rajesh R Subramanian

I think you need to download the latest Platform SDK.

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Suresh H

I am using VS 6.

Rajesh R Subramanian

Suresh H wrote:

SHCreateDirectory(NULL, TEXT("C:\\A\\B\\C")); SHCreateDirectoryEx(NULL, TEXT("C:\\A\\B\\C"));

SHCreateDirectoryEx(NULL, TEXT("C:\\A\\B\\C")); There is a third parameter to the Ex version of this function! Did you not even look at this function in the documentation? the Ex version of this function allows you to define security attributes to the folder that you create. That is the third parameter while using the Ex version and that is the only difference between SHCreateDirectory() and SHCreateDirectoryEx(). If you do not want to define security attributes, then do not use the Ex version.

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Suresh H

I just tried with both the options, I want just to create a set of folders c:\\a\\b , then I think SHCreateDirectory() is enough.

Rajesh R Subramanian

Thanks!

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prasad_som

You need to download latest platform SDK. If its already there. Update include directories settings for your IDE, to point to updated SDK.

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prasad_som

In addition to my previous reply. Mentioned API's are available with IE version 6 onwards. Make sure sure it is present on your machine. And to compile youe code , your need to update IE version in your app, too.

#ifdef _WIN32_IE
#undef _WIN32_IE
#endif
#define _WIN32_IE 0x0601

Use above line of code in your application. Before including concern API file.

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