Re: Another copy file question.

From:

TonyG <TonyG@junk.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:13:31 -0600

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<VnUkl.12242$W06.11991@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com>

Thanks for the reply it helps greatly.

One issue.
I think I will need to deal with a domain/login/password for the
destination directory. I know that if I mount the directory as a drive
letter I am asked for this information. Won't I need to specify that.
CopyFileEx does not have parameters for that.

On the other hand... If I was to code the coping directly by coding with
open read write close statements ... I'm not sure I know how to open a
file with domain/login/password. Is there some other functions I need?

Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:

No, but you don't need a class. Just write the code! It's *very* easy:

class ThreadParams {
    public:
    CString Source;
    CString Target;
    CWnd * wnd;
};

ThreadParams * parms = new ThreadParams;
parms->Source = _T("c:\\whatever\\*.*"); // for example
parms->Target = _T("\\\\server5\\x\\destinationdir"); // for example
AfxBeginThread(CopyThread, parms);

/* static */ UINT CMyClass::CopyThread(LPVOID p)
    {
     ThreadParams * parms = (ThreadParams *)p;
     ... copy files
     parms->wnd->PostMessage(UWM_COPY_FINISHED);
     delete parms;
     return 0;
    }

There are fine points, such as notifying the parms->wnd when each file is copied, which
you might want to do to update a progress bar or status in the status bar or something
like that.

See my essay on worker threads on my MVP Tips site.
                joe

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:24:48 -0600, TonyG <TonyG@junk.com> wrote:

My program needs to copy a series of files from the local box to a
network location. Some of the files could be quite some size and so I'm
thinking I need a separate thread to handle this work.

I would think this is a common task. Does anyone have a class that
implements the copy file functionality in a separate thread?

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newcomer@flounder.com
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm

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