Question

Is there an equivalent to the Java File method isDirectory() in MFC? I tried using this :

 static bool isDirectory(CString &path) {   return GetFileAttributes(path) & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY;    } 

but it doesn’t seem to work.

Answer 1

Sorry for possibly ‘inconsistency’ of answer to question but may be you’ll see it useful because anytime I need something like this in Windows I am NOT using MFC but regular Windows API:

//not completely tested but after some debug I'm sure it'll work bool IsDirectory(LPCTSTR sDirName) {     //First define special structure defined in windows     WIN32_FIND_DATA findFileData; ZeroMemory(&findFileData, sizeof(WIN32_FIND_DATA));     //after that call WinAPI function finding file\directory     //(don't forget to close handle after all!)     HANDLE hf = ::FindFirstFile(sDirName, &findFileData);     if (hf  ==  INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) //also predefined value - 0xFFFFFFFF     return false;     //closing handle!     ::FindClose(hf);     // true if directory flag in on     return (findFileData.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) != 0; }