by Karthikeyan (187 Submissions)
Category: Windows API Call/Explanation
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Wed 1st August 2001
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
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Find Files using FindFirstFile,FindNextFile and FindClose API
API Declarations
dwLowDateTime As Long
dwHighDateTime As Long
End Type
Private Type WIN32_FIND_DATA
dwFileAttributes As Long
ftCreationTime As FILETIME
ftLastAccessTime As FILETIME
ftLastWriteTime As FILETIME
nFileSizeHigh As Long
nFileSizeLow As Long
dwReserved0 As Long
dwReserved1 As Long
cFileName As String * 260
cAlternate As String * 14
End Type
Private Declare Function FindNextFile Lib "kernel32.dll" Alias "FindNextFileA" (ByVal hFindFile As Long, lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long
Private Declare Function FindFirstFile Lib "kernel32.dll" Alias "FindFirstFileA" (ByVal lpFileName As String, lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long
Private Declare Function FindClose Lib "kernel32.dll" (ByVal hFindFile As Long) As Long
VBcoders
Dim handle As Long
Dim finfo As WIN32_FIND_DATA
Dim found As Long
Dim buffer As String
Dim rval As Long
Dim c As Integer
List1.Clear
handle = FindFirstFile(Text1.Text, finfo)'Find files in path entered in the textbox
If handle = -1 Then
MsgBox "No files found"
End
End If
c = 0
Do
buffer = Space(128)
buffer = Left(finfo.cFileName, InStr(finfo.cFileName, Chr(0)) - 1) 'Extract the found filename
buffer = buffer & "---------> " & finfo.nFileSizeLow & " Bytes"
'MsgBox buffer
List1.AddItem buffer, c
c = c + 1
found = FindNextFile(handle, finfo)
Loop Until found = 0
rval = FindClose(handle)
End Sub
Private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
If KeyAscii = 13 Then
SendKeys "{TAB}"
SendKeys "{ENTER}"
End If
End Sub
