Parksie Would Know Right?

[Chris_SE]

I have a few questions that are driving me INSANE. Here I go:

1. For the FindFirstFile and FindNextFile apis, the api requires WIN32_FIND_DATA in the function arguement. How do I send that in C++?
   
2. Is there a way to use the DeleteFile api to delete all files of a certain type in a directory? I tried:
   

   if(DeleteFile("C:/windows/desktop/testfolder/*.txt"))
      cout<<"Delete Successful";
   else
      cout<<"Complete Failure";

   Unfortunately that seems to only work if I give it a specific file, if I use *.something it doesn't seem to work, even though documentation I've seen says it should
   
3. Alright I am working on a key logger of sorts(just me screwing around) and I encountered a large problem. I need to be able to have code act like a vb timer. Hence it needs to keep repeating without returning a value. I tried recursion but that doesn't seem to work.
   
4. Is there a way to have a dynamic string like the apstring header(widely distributed) using normal char definitions?
   

[Vlatko]

1.
WIN32_FIND_DATA data;
FindFirstFile("c:\\myfile",&data);

3.Set a timer
SetTimer(hWnd,15,1,NULL);
'Handle your code in the WM_TIMER message

if(uMsg == WM_TIMER)
{
'code
}

[Chris_SE]

Thanks Vlatko. But with the timer would I do this:

void main()
{
int x;
SetTimer(GetWindowDC(0),15,1,NULL);
if(uMsg == WM_TIMER)
{
   x++
   cout<<x;
}

So Would that just keep incrementing x and print out its value? Also when I try it, it says I need to declare uMsg. Could you give small example that works? Sorry, just completely new to creating my timer, vb spoiled me
Btw is your name from a game?

[Vlatko]

I gave you

if(uMsg == WM_TIMER)
{

}

presuming that you have set a WindowProc for handling messages and you are making a Win32 App and not a DOS app.

Originally posted by Chris_SE
[*]Is there a way to have a dynamic string like the apstring header(widely distributed) using normal char definitions?[/list]

what do you mean by this?


there is a header file I downloaded from lawrence ville press that allows you to make strings really easy..

you can download that and more here:

http://lvp.com/data/cpluspc/