Hello all. I am relatively new to Windows programming. I can make it do fanciful stuff like show windows, but i was wondering what kind of functions the windows api provides for things like opening, closing, and reading files, making directories, and things of that nature. If you can point me to a good document besides the MSDN about the api, i would much appreciate it.
Why not MSDN? o.O
MSDN is one of the most helpful resources to Windows programmers, it covers pretty much every function, structure, message and macro efficiently, and even has procedures set by...
But if you must... This covers opening/saving files: http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/app_two.html
I admit, the MSDN is very helpful, if you have a question about a specific function. I'm not one for the organization of the website. How are you supposed to find anything on there? But anyways thanks for the help
You can download the Windows SDK which comes with the compiled help. It uses the same format but you can use the index which is quite nice for finding what you want.
I normally have the index open and I also bookmarked the page that breaks each Windows API function down by category. This page is very useful since it gives a good overview of the API from a functional perspective.
Remember that MSDN has a lot more than just the Windows API on it and at times this makes searching it a bit confusing. It has everything from SQL Server to Direct3D to .NET.
Very true. I have another question. Is there an efficient way to check for directory existence using the windows API? i found alot on files, but not much on directories...
Code:WIN32_FIND_DATA stFind; HANDLE hFindFile; hFindFile=FindFirstFile("fileordirname",&stFind); if(hFindFile!=INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE){ //exists if(stFind.dwFileAttributes&FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) { //it's a directory } else { //it's a file } FindClose(hFindFile); }
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I'm now trying to use the shell function SHCreateDirectory. I have included <shlobj.h> and have linked to shell32.lib, but the compiler is telling me that SHCreateDirectory is undeclared. is there another file i should be including?
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
#define WINVER 0x0500
Last edited by Elysia; 07-01-2008 at 03:45 PM.
Originally Posted by Adak
its still saying that SHCreateDirectory hasnt been defined and now its giving me warnings about redefining
