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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> You seriously need to learn to start reading documentation before you ask
> such things.

this is what i was trying first :-)

> You don't need to include anything for GetLongPathName().  It is declared 
> in
> winbase.h, which is included by windows.h, which is included by vcl.h.  In
> other words, the function is always available.
>
> If the compiler does not recognize the function, then you must be using 
> BCB
> 1 or 3, because GetLongPathName() has been available to Borland since 
> BCB4.
>
>
> Gambit

thats right, i'm using the BCB3 on this machine...don't laugh :-)

i will use a workaround directly via the API...because, like
i've said FindFirstFile() doesn't give me the full path + filename....
that's way i'm depend on this GetLongPathName()

besides this i like the API more as the VCL because it's more
transparent, so it's possible to see what goes on behind the curtain :-)

by the way, when i'm including: <windows.h>
which DLL's will be effected, will it be still standalone...? this
is something that i never understand, i mean if you want to use
a specific function that is declared in the huge <windows.h>
will your program will be depening on all those lib's and DLL's
or only on those of the specific function that you want to use....?



Oren

here's a little sample from the MSDN:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define BUFSIZE 4096

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    DWORD retval=0;
    BOOL success;
    char buffer[BUFSIZE]="";
    char * lpPart[BUFSIZE]={NULL};

// Retrieve a full path name for a file.  The file does not need to
// exist.
    retval = GetFullPathName("c:\\testfile.txt",
			     BUFSIZE,
	                     buffer,
			     lpPart);

    if (retval == 0)
    {
        // Handle an error condition.
        printf ("GetFullPathName failed with error %d.\n",
                GetLastError());
        return (1);
    }
    else
        printf("The full path name for the file test.txt is:  %s\n",
               buffer);


// Create a long directory name for use with the next two examples.
    success = CreateDirectory("c:\\longdirectoryname",
                              NULL);    // No security attributes.

    if (!success)
    {
        // Handle an error condition.
        printf ("CreateDirectory failed with error %d.\n",
                GetLastError());
        return (1);
    }


// Retrieve the short path name.

    retval = GetShortPathName("c:\\longdirectoryname",
	                      buffer,
			      BUFSIZE);

    if (retval == 0)
    {
        // Handle an error condition.
         printf ("GetShortPathName failed with error %d.\n",
                 GetLastError());
         return (1);
    }
    else
        printf("The short path name for the directory "
               "c:\\longdirectoryname is:  %s\n", buffer);


// Retrieve the long path name.
    retval = GetLongPathName("c:\\LONGDI~1",
	                  buffer,
			  BUFSIZE);

    if (retval == 0)
    {
        // Handle an error condition.
         printf ("GetLongPathName failed with error %d.\n",
                 GetLastError());
         return (1);
    }
    else
        printf("The long path name for the directory "
               "c:\\longdirectoryname is:  %s\n", buffer);

// Clean up the directory.

	success = RemoveDirectory("c:\\longdirectoryname");
    if (!success)
    {
        // Handle an error condition.
        printf ("RemoveDirectory failed with error %d.\n",
                GetLastError());
        return (1);
    }
}