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5 total messages Started by Phil V Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:50

#17169

Author: Phil V
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:50

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How do I create the WIN32_FIND_DATA structure to pass to FindFirstFile?

And how do i pass it?

thanks,

PHil


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Re: WIN32_FIND_DATA

#17170

Author: Vladimir Afanasyev
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 16:05

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"Phil V" <pvalentine_REMOVE_THIS_@_REMOVE_THIS_continental-microwave.co.uk> wrote:
>How do I create the WIN32_FIND_DATA structure to pass to FindFirstFile?
>

You can see sample:
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Inside_a_maze_of_DLLs.asp

Vladimir.

Re: WIN32_FIND_DATA

#17077

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 16:14

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"Phil V" <pvalentine_REMOVE_THIS_@_REMOVE_THIS_continental-microwave.co.uk>
wrote in message news:3e92e1ac@newsgroups.borland.com...
> How do I create the WIN32_FIND_DATA structure
> to pass to FindFirstFile?
>
> And how do i pass it?

    WIN32_FIND_DATA  fd = {0};
    HANDLE hFind = FindFirstFile("some mask", &fd);
    ...


Gambit

Re: WIN32_FIND_DATA

#17098

Author: Phil V
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 08:02

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Remy,

What does the '= {0}' do when declaring the WIN32_FIND_DATA ?  Is it filling
the structure with 0's ?

Phil

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3e92f56f$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "Phil V"
<pvalentine_REMOVE_THIS_@_REMOVE_THIS_continental-microwave.co.uk>
> wrote in message news:3e92e1ac@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > How do I create the WIN32_FIND_DATA structure
> > to pass to FindFirstFile?
> >
> > And how do i pass it?
>
>     WIN32_FIND_DATA  fd = {0};
>     HANDLE hFind = FindFirstFile("some mask", &fd);
>     ...
>
>
> Gambit
>
>

Re: WIN32_FIND_DATA

#17107

Author: Jonathan Arnold
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 13:03

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>>    WIN32_FIND_DATA  fd = {0};
>>    HANDLE hFind = FindFirstFile("some mask", &fd);
> What does the '= {0}' do when declaring the WIN32_FIND_DATA ?  Is it filling
> the structure with 0's ?

Yes, that's exactly what it does. And there is a nice shortcut
for filling in the size of the structure, and zeroing all the
rest. For instance:

STARTUPINFO si = {sizeof(STARTUPINFO)};

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