Necuima Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Hi, Larry OK'd the posting of this code example which I eventually got to work. The environment was Windows 10, Visual Studio 2017 with the C++17 language in a Windows Form. I wanted to select a directory that had sub-directories and process jpg files in either the top-level directory or and of its sub-directories. I used recursive_directory_iterator to get access to the directories. Here's the code just FYI in case anyone else is crazy enough like me to want to do this. private: System::Void btnSelectDir_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) { // the 'select the root directory' button was clicked FolderBrowserDialog^ folderBrowserDialog1 = gcnew FolderBrowserDialog; directory_list = gcnew List<String^>(20); // initially allow for 20 entries but the capacity will expand automatically if needed directory_count = 0; total_image_files_count = 0; folderBrowserDialog1->SelectedPath = "E:\\Documents\\"; // adjust as necessary // the following control allows the selection of the input root directory System::Windows::Forms::DialogResult result = folderBrowserDialog1->ShowDialog(); if (result == System::Windows::Forms::DialogResult::OK) { this->txtDirName->Text = folderBrowserDialog1->SelectedPath; selected_root_directory = folderBrowserDialog1->SelectedPath; // selected_root_directory is a managed string // we have selected a root directory OK // convert it to the format required by recursive_directory_iterator marshal::marshal_context context; // sets the context - needed - but don't know why! std::string unmanaged_selected_path = context.marshal_as<std::string>(selected_root_directory); // Managed string to standard string fs::path selected_path = unmanaged_selected_path; // standard string to path // first see if the selected root directory contains any jpg files - if so add it to the list if (the_directory_contains_at_least_one_jpg_file(selected_path)) { // add the directory to the list directory_list->Add(selected_root_directory); // directory_list has (and needs) global scope directory_count++; } // end the selected root directory contained at least one jpg type file // now see if the selected root directory contains any sub-directories for (auto& p : fs::recursive_directory_iterator(selected_path)) { // 'p' is the path data returned from each iteration - it may reference a sub-directory or a file if (fs::is_directory(p.path())) { // we have a directory std::string path_details = p.path().string(); // convert the path details to a standard string String^ managed_path_details = gcnew String(path_details.c_str()); // convert the standard string to a managed string etc... fs was the namespace I set up for the file system. Cheers from Oz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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