OpenEuphoria

Re: "paper basket"

• Posted by Jeffrey Fielding <jjprog at earthlink.net> Jun 10, 2002
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Juergen Luethje wrote:

>
>Hello all,
>
>I'd like to write some routines, that delete files/directories by using
>the "paper basket".
>
>"paper basket" is the English translation of the German name, but is
>this really the correct English name? How is this thing called under
>Windows, and how under Linux?
>
>With the correct name, maybe I can find the proper Windows API-function.
>Or can anyone please tell me, how to do it? Under windows, the "paper
>basket" is a special directory. Maybe I just have to move the files to
>this directory?
>Can a DOS program, that is running under Windows 95+, also use the
>"paper basket"?
>
>Thanks in advance, and best regards,
>   Juergen
>
>  
>

Under Windows, I think you can use SHFileOperation. I haven't tried it, 
but from the documentation it looks promising. See 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/Shell/reference/functions/shfileoperation.asp
for more information. I don't think it would work for a DOS program, 
however.

Under Linux, there isn't a standard "Recycle Bin." Some window managers, 
such as GNOME (www.gnome.org) and KDE (www.kde.org) do have something 
like it, but I haven't tried using it in any of my programs.

Jeff