Question

I have an application which behaves as a slideshow for all pictures in a folder. It is written in Borland’s C++ Builder (9). It currently uses some borrowed code to throw the filenames into a listbox and save the listbox items as a text file.

I want to update this so that the filenames are stored in a proper database so that I can include extra fields and do proper SQL things with it.

So basically I would be able to work it out if I saw some ‘sample’ code doing the same thing.

So if anyone knows of any code that does this I would be greatful. It needs to be able to do it on certain file types… not just all the files.

Answer 1

You basically neeed to write a recursive function with a TDataSet parameter.

(I could not compile my code, so you get it ‘as is’)

void AddFiles(AnsiString path, TDataSet *DataSet) { TSearchRec sr; int f;     f = FindFirst(path+'\\*.*', faAnyFile, sr);     while( !f )     {         if(sr.Attr & faDirectory)         {             if(sr.Name != '.'   &&   sr.Name != '..')             {                 path.sprintf('%s%s%s', path, '\\', sr.Name);                 AddFiles(path, DataSet);             }         }         else         {             DataSet->Append();             DataSet->FieldByName('Name')->Value = sr.Name;             /* other fields ... */             DataSet->Post();         }         f = FindNext(sr);     }     FindClose(sr); }