Re: Problem in using SHFileOperation

From:
"Bruno van Dooren" <bruno_nos_pam_van_dooren@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:21:23 +0200
Message-ID:
<u7oyS8PoGHA.1052@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>

 I am using SHFileOperation in my application to copy one folder with
its entire contents to another location. My function is this-

bool CopyDir(LPCTSTR szExistingDir, LPCTSTR szNewDir)
{
    SHFILEOPSTRUCT sfo={0};
     sfo.wFunc = FO_COPY;
    sfo.pFrom = szExistingDir;
    sfo.pTo = szNewDir;
    sfo.fFlags = FOF_SILENT | FOF_NOCONFIRMATION | FOF_NOERRORUI ;
    int rc=SHFileOperation(&sfo);
return(rc==0)
}

Now I am storing existing directory and New directory in string
variables as-
str1="C:\\fol1\\fol2";
str2="D:\\fol3";

now using one local convert function, I am changing every backslash( \
) into double backslash( \ \) and passing as-

CopyDir(str1.c_str(),str2.c_str());


If you put string literals in code, you use double backslashes because a
backslash is an escape code.
the string literal itself will only contain 1 slash.

if you replace all '\' characters with 2 '\' characters, it cannot work.
your strings should contain single slashes, not double slashes.

have you looked at the code from the article on www.codeproject.com that i
linked to when you posted your original question?

--

Kind regards,
    Bruno van Dooren
    bruno_nos_pam_van_dooren@hotmail.com
    Remove only "_nos_pam"

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