Subj : Re: directory trees
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "mike" <localmotion@hawaii.rr.com>
Date : Tue Apr 13 2004 07:29 pm

Dennis,

  That would be a tremendous help. could you please post it?

Aloha,
mike


"Dennis Jones" <djones@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:407b532e$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "mike" <localmotion@hawaii.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:407ae2f1$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > hi,
> >
> >   i was writing my own installer program for my app, but i ran into a
> > roadblock.i need to copy over directory trees which contains both files
> and
> > directories. i am using pure win32 (no OWL or MFC) and there is no
> > CopyDirectory (). there is a CopyFile (), but the tree that i want to
copy
> > has a lot of files and i don't want to do it that way. plus when i add a
> > file to the tree i wil have to remember to update the intstaller. i was
> > wondering if there is a good way to do this? the only other way i could
> > think of was to spawn a new process and call xcopy to do the directory
> copy.
> > any ideas?
>
> You have already received a couple of good suggestions, but if you still
> want a function to copy whole directories, I have a set of functions that
I
> wrote a long time ago to do just that:
>
> bool CopyTree( char *SourceDirectory, char *TargetDirectory );
> bool DeleteTree( char *SourceDirectory, bool bEraseReadOnlyFiles =
false );
> bool MoveTree( char *SourceDirectory, char *TargetDirectory, bool
> bMoveReadOnlyFiles = false );
>
> Let me know if you are interested in having these, and I will gladly post
> them to the attachments newsgroup.  They are written entirely with the
Win32
> API (no VCL) because they were written for VC++.  I also found the code
> below with a google search.  It's Delphi, but it would be a fairly easy
port
> to C:
>
> function CopyTree(dir, dest: string): Boolean;
> var
>   sfos: TSHFileOpStruct;
> begin
>   FillChar(sfos, SizeOf(sfos), 0);
>   dir := dir + '\*.*'#0;
>   dest := dest + '\*.*'#0;
>   with sfos do begin
>     wnd   := 0;
>     wfunc := FO_COPY;
>     pFrom := PChar(dir);
>     pTo   := PChar(dest);
>     fFlags:= FOF_ALLOWUNDO or FOF_RENAMEONCOLLISION or
>              FOF_SIMPLEPROGRESS;
>     fAnyOperationsAborted := false;
>     hNameMappings         := nil;
>     lpszProgressTitle     := nil
>   end;
>   Result := SHFileOperation(sfos) = 0
> end;
>
> - Dennis
>
>

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