problems with al

problems with al_findfirst

Mark Oates

Member #1,146

March 2001

I'm trying to do a simple search and list files in a directory. This is my code and for some reason it doesn't find any files:

what am I doing wrong?

1void search_for_files(string search_criteria="*.htm")
2{
3     al_ffblk info;
4 
5     string gimp_string = "";
6 
7     if (al_findfirst(search_criteria.c_str(), &info, 0) == 0)
8     {
9         do
10         {
11       gimp_string = ToString(info.name);
12             allegro_message(gimp_string.c_str());
13         } while (al_findnext(&info) == 0);
14     }
15     else allegro_message("no files found");
16 
17     al_findclose(&info);
18}

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Synapse Jumps

Member #3,073

December 2002

Try specifying an absolute path, IE: "C:\*.htm", also, keep in mind these don't search recursively, so if you have folders IN whichever folder you're running this, it won't work properly.

Evert

Member #794

November 2000

Quote:

what am I doing wrong?

What almost everyone does wrong :

Quote:

al_findfirst(search_criteria.c_str(), &info, 0)

By passing 0, you are exclusing all files that have any attributes set (keep reading http://alleg.sourceforge.net/onlinedocs/en/alleg030.html until this makes sense). Pass FA_ALL instead (this is not documented in the 4.2 documentation due to an oversight, it is in SVN). The SVN documentation also has a less confusing description of what the flags do than the one in the current documentation.

Mark Oates

Member #1,146

March 2001

Ah, twas the example in the documentation. FA_ALL is not diclared in the version I'm using - 4.2.0(beta3). so I did this:

#define FA_ALL FA_RDONLY | FA_HIDDEN | FA_SYSTEM | FA_LABEL | FA_DIREC | FA_ARCH

(any I missed?)

on a different note:
I've been using the online manual from allegro.cc, the last paragraph is doubled on some of these al_find* entries.

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