Newbie File Read and Save problem

Hi All!

I hope you can help.

I'm trying to write a very basic C app with one dialog box. The window contains 2 multiline text/edit fields.

What I need is:

1. A function to (called on opening the app):

(a) if exisits, copy "sample.bat" to "sample.bat.bak" //create a backup of course
(b) read "sample.bat" into the text field (IDEDIT1) in dialog box for editing.
(c) delete "sample.bat"
(d) if not exists create new (empty) "sample.bat" for editing
(e) and then read the new "sample.bat" into the text field (IDEDIT1) in dialog box for editing.

2. A function for the SAVE button to:

(a) write/save edited text from IDEDIT1 to new "sample.bat"

Each of these functions would be called twice I presume, one for each file. The 2 (sample.bat, sample2.bat) files will be hard coded in the function call, and will always be in the same directory as the app itself.

As you can see its very basic. I have the structure in place using Lcc-W32 Wedit, but just cant get these functions figured out.

I have read all the posts on this board regarding file i/o but none seem to be doing what I want, and I'm concerned about the strange characters used in batch files.

I'm a 3 day C programmer, with most of my experience (which is minimal) in PHP...not having '$' in front of vars is really messing me up!!!

Anyhooo, I appreciate I'm asking a lot, but I dont know where to start really, and found I learnt PHP in the early days by copying good examples, so hopefully that will work hear too.

Thanks!!

Look at these functions
hFile=CreateFile(sFilePath, GENERIC_WRITE|GENERIC_READ, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);//CREATE_ALWAYS

GetFileSize()//get the size to read and alloc
GlobalAlloc()//to alloc a char buffer for the file
ReadFile()//read the whole file at once
CloseHandle()//to close the file
SetDlgItemText()
GetDlgItemText()
DeleteFile()
WriteFile()//write new file
GlobalFree()//free the alloced buffer

Watch your edit as may need to change the default styles to handle large(ish) amounts of data.


good luck. Post your attempt if you have problems.

Thanks!

I have already looked over these extensively and still cant figure it out.

I have got the write to file working with the following function:

Code:

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int SaveBat (HWND hwndDlg)
{
        // took me 3 hours to get this working!!
                FILE *fptr;
        char mytexta[1024];
                               
        fptr = fopen("sample1.bat", "w");
        GetDlgItemText(hwndDlg, IDEDIT1, mytexta, 1023);
        fprintf(fptr,"%s",mytexta);
        fclose(fptr);
        return TRUE;
}

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but I cant seem to reverse this to read the file contents into the field.

I've tried the following, but it only shows the first line using fgets. Again I have tried examples of while statements to read all lines, but can't get them to work

Code:

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int LoadBat (HWND hwndDlg)
{
        FILE *fptrc;
        char mytextc[1024];
                               
        fptrc = fopen("sample1.bat", "r");
        fgets( mytextc, 1023, fptrc );
        SetDlgItemText(hwndDlg, IDEDIT1, mytextc);
        fclose( fptrc );
        return TRUE;
}

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If anyone can show me how to make this work, or show me how to make the WinAPI method work I would be most grateful.

Thanks again!