Newbie: creating a folder/directory

[Richard Coutts]

Windows/VC++ 6.0

I need to create a folder on the desktop from within my application.
I can get the path to the desktop using 'SHGetSpecialFolderLocation',
but it's not clear to me how to create a folder from there. The path
to the folder would be just the folder name concatenated to the
desktop path -- e.g., "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\NewFolder." I can use
'fopen' to create files, but how do you create a folder?

Thanks!
Rich

 

[osmium]

Windows/VC++ 6.0

I need to create a folder on the desktop from within my application.
I can get the path to the desktop using 'SHGetSpecialFolderLocation',
but it's not clear to me how to create a folder from there. The path
to the folder would be just the folder name concatenated to the
desktop path -- e.g., "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\NewFolder." I can use
'fopen' to create files, but how do you create a folder?

Use system() in <cstdlib>.

 

[Richard Coutts]

Use system() in <cstdlib>.

Thanks for the post. It set me on the right direction, for some
reason I could get system("mkdir...") working for me. But in
researching the problem I stumbled across 'CreateDirectory' which did
the trick.

Rich