Greg: "win_dir()" problems... 12/32/2003 :-)
Hello there,
Greg, since you wrote this i guess you want to know the following
information...
First problem is that the 'day' is always one more than the actual
day, so the file date 12/31/2003 gets returned as 12/32/2003.
The simple fix was to rem out the part where 'day' is incremented...
day=something+1 (or something like that) is changed to
day=something.
Second problem is that normally the user will want the same time
shown in the Windows Explorer...namely, the "Local Time", and not
the "UTC". The simple fix was to convert the utc time to local time
using the api "FileTimeToLocalFileTime" call...
Instead of calling
void=FileTimeToSystemFileTime(pft,pst)
first call
void=FileTimeToLocalFileTime(pft,pft2)
and after that call
void=FileTimeToSystemFileTime(pft2,pst)
The returned values then match up with Windows Explorer, and are the
correct time values for the particular users computer according to
how he has his local time set.
After making the above two changes the program works really well and
im able to use this already in a program in which i was calling
system(dir...>filename) and then reading the filename file to get the
dir info with paths longer than 100 characters. I still use Eu's
"dir()" function for shorter ones, but there are quite a few long
ones too so if the path is longer i simply switch now to using your
dir function instead.
Oh yeah, one little thing is that if the path is a directory and it
does not contain a trailing "\\" slash, win_dir() returns only
one record or something, so it's not exactly the same as what Eu's
dir command returns. Adding the slash at the end gets the whole
dir though. This isnt too much of a problem, but you cant simply
replace d=dir() with d=win_dir() in your program and expect it to
work exactly the same because it wont. Perhaps you can find a way
to fix this also, which would be nice :)
In the mean time, im using it with the above changes and using a
trailing slash char and it's working the same as when i was reading
the file written first with system dir so im happy with it.
Now i can eliminate the system call as well as the file read which will
speed things up a little. It's a cleaner program now too in that it
doesnt have to write a temporary file anywhere.
Take care,
Al
And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!
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