problem in SET DEFAULT TO (hidden folder)

[liew wai foong]

hi all.

question 1:
I have a folder(say, named "myfolder") with attribute set to hidden.
When i issue SET DEFA TO myfolder, an error message "Invalid path or file
name" prompted. I would like to know whether is there anyway to issue the
SET DEFAULT TO command to a hidden folder.

question 2:
I use a few API functions namely FindFirstFile and FindNextFile to scan directory.
They work fine for normal files but skip hidden files, so the number of files
being scanned I get is less than the actual no of files, unlike ADIR() in
VFP where it can scans all files including hidden files. Is there anyway
to use the API functions to scan hidden files instead of
ADIR() ?

any one can help ?

thank you very much in advance.

[Stefan Wuebbe]

Hi
> question 1:
> I would like to know whether is there anyway to issue the
> SET DEFAULT TO command to a hidden folder.

AFAIK you cannot. Personally I don't worry, since you still
can address it, e.g. SET PATH TO it, STRTOFILE() etc.
..

> question 2:
Don't know for the APIs, I use ADIR(). Did you try WSH?
objFSO=create("scripting.filesystemobject")
objFolder=objFSO.getfolder("d:\temp\test")
FOR EACH oFile IN objFolder.Files
?JUSTFNAME(oFile.Name) && Name only
?JUSTEXT(oFile.Name) && Extension only
?oFile.Path
?oFile.DateLastModified
?oFile.Size
ENDFOR
(quoted from a message by John Koziol)


hth
-Stefan

"liew wai foong" <waifoong@asialife.com.my> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3b8dfccd$1@news.devx.com...
>
> hi all.
>
> question 1:
> I have a folder(say, named "myfolder") with attribute set to hidden.
> When i issue SET DEFA TO myfolder, an error message "Invalid path or file
> name" prompted. I would like to know whether is there anyway to issue the
> SET DEFAULT TO command to a hidden folder.
>
> question 2:
> I use a few API functions namely FindFirstFile and FindNextFile to scan directory.
> They work fine for normal files but skip hidden files, so the number of files
> being scanned I get is less than the actual no of files, unlike ADIR() in
> VFP where it can scans all files including hidden files. Is there anyway
> to use the API functions to scan hidden files instead of
> ADIR() ?
>
> any one can help ?
>
> thank you very much in advance.

[liew wai foong]

thank you stefan
i'll have further try on scription.filesystemobject

thank you again