ReadDirectoryChangesW problem

[Tanuki]

Hi All:

I am currently writing a VC++ 6 program to detect file addition to a
specific directory. I am using ReadDirectoryChangesW to detect the
changes and I am running the detection mechanism as a working thread.

My code is as follows:

//*****************************

HANDLE hDir = CreateFile(directoryName, // pointer to the file name,
directoryName is a CString for the directory to be monitored
FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY, // access (read/write) mode
FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_DELETE, // share mode
NULL, // security descriptor
OPEN_EXISTING, // how to create
FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, // file attributes
NULL // file with attributes
to copy
);

FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION Buffer[1024];
DWORD BytesReturned;

while (ReadDirectoryChangesW (
hDir,&Buffer,1024,TRUE,FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRI TE,&BytesReturned,NULL,NULL))
{

// do required tasks for file addition here

}

//************************
However, I kept having the compilation error of
error C2065 : 'ReadDirectoryChangesW' : undeclared identifier

Could someone please kindly enligten me on this? Thank you very much.

[Thomas Matthews]

Tanuki wrote:

Hi All:

I am currently writing a VC++ 6 program to detect file addition to a
specific directory. I am using ReadDirectoryChangesW to detect the
changes and I am running the detection mechanism as a working thread.

My code is as follows:

//*****************************

HANDLE hDir = CreateFile(directoryName, // pointer to the file name,
directoryName is a CString for the directory to be monitored
FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY, // access (read/write) mode
FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_DELETE, // share mode
NULL, // security descriptor
OPEN_EXISTING, // how to create
FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, // file attributes
NULL // file with attributes
to copy
);

FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION Buffer[1024];
DWORD BytesReturned;

while (ReadDirectoryChangesW (
hDir,&Buffer,1024,TRUE,FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRI TE,&BytesReturned,NULL,NULL))
{

// do required tasks for file addition here

}

//************************
However, I kept having the compilation error of
error C2065 : 'ReadDirectoryChangesW' : undeclared identifier

Could someone please kindly enligten me on this? Thank you very much.

It's probably because you didn't supply a header file.
When I compile this using Borland C++ Builder and
GNU gcc, I get a lot more "undeclared identifiers".

Since you are using platform specific function calls you
should post this in a Windows or Visual C++ newsgroup.
--
Thomas Matthews

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