Whats wrong with my Writefile?

Code:

	HANDLE File;
	DWORD bytesWritten;
	HWND hEdit;
	int Length;
	File = CreateFile("c:/testing.txt",GENERIC_WRITE,FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL,
		              CREATE_ALWAYS,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,NULL);
	hEdit = GetDlgItem(hwnd,ID_MAINEDIT);
	Length = GetWindowTextLength(hEdit);

	char *Buffer = new char[Length+1];
	WriteFile(File,Buffer,Length,&bytesWritten,NULL);
	CloseHandle(File);
	delete [] Buffer;

Guys can someone tell me why did the output of my writefile is like this ÍÍÍÍ, looks like those in Character Maps. Can someone advice ?

Because there's nothing in Buffer except random garbage - try putting some meaningful data in there like, for example, with GetWindowText as it seems you may have been intending to do.

OH, no wonder, i guess i missed the GetDlgItemText() ! damn, THANZ

Ken, do you know of any functions for checking the directory my program will be in ? so that i can correctly save the file in. kinda like C:/program files/retard/ < - my program folder.

If you are creating a distributable program you should not save files in your program directory, as it will be read-only after install. Typically, you should save in either My Documents (for user documents) or Application Data/Your App (for settings files, logs, etc). You can get these paths by calling SHGetSpecialFolderPath with CSIDL_APPDATA and CSIDL_PERSONAL respectively.

That being said, you can get the path of your exe with the following code:

Code:

TCHAR szPath[MAX_PATH];

GetModuleFileName(NULL, szPath, MAX_PATH);
PathRemoveFileSpec(szPath);
PathAddBackslash(szPath);

or with getCurrentDirectory() or GetWorkingDirectory()

Great, thanz, i should be able to get the working path now. One more problem guys about the WriteFile(); I have 2 editbox - ID_TITLE and ID_MAIN. Its the Title box and the main details box. The problem is when i write the info to my file, theres no /n or paragraphs. Is it possible to add a paragraphing thru WriteFile() ? i tried using strcat() and add \n to the buffer but it didnt work, alien boxes came out instead.

A newline in Windows is represented by "\r\n". When you use the c file functions in text mode, "\n" is automatically converted to "\r\n" on output and "\r\n" is converted to "\n" on input. WriteFile, on the other hand, treats its buffer as binary data and no conversion is performed. Therefore, you will have to use "\r\n" explicitly.

Any advice on how i could achieve it ? im trying to seperate my ID_TITLE and ID_MAIN text infos from each other, everithing is lined up together and its ugly.

Just like normal, but with "\r\n" instead of "\n".

Code:

strcat(buf, "\r\n");

OR

WriteFile(File,"\r\n",2,&bytesWritten,NULL);

OR

sprintf(buf, "%s\r\n%s", title_str, main_str);

anonytmouse, i tried the following but none seems to work perfectly, can you tell me the problems?

Code:

	WriteFile(File,Title,Length2,&TitleWritten,NULL);
	WriteFile(File,"\r\n",4,&TitleWritten,NULL);
	WriteFile(File,Buffer,Length,&bytesWritten,NULL);

output for this is

Code:

testing
  ojojoj

theres a spacing in front of the second info

Code:

	strcat(Title,"\r\n");
	Length2 += 4;

	WriteFile(File,Title,Length2,&TitleWritten,NULL);
	WriteFile(File,Buffer,Length,&bytesWritten,NULL);

Output is

Code:

Title
 ýTesting

The newline command definitely works but both with funny results, can someone explain ?

> Length2 += 4;
Length2 += 2;