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Getting FileType with MFC
I recently started using c++ with MFC, but I can't find all the functions that the api has.
I usually used the SHGetFileInfo with the SHGFI_TYPENAME argument to receive the filetype before I began with MFC.
Now I use the CFileFind class to locate files on the harddisk, it works fine, but I can't find any function that receives the FileType... I've searched for other classes like the CFile but with no succeed.
how do I receive the filetype description of a file?
I usually used the SHGetFileInfo with the SHGFI_TYPENAME argument to receive the filetype before I began with MFC.
Now I use the CFileFind class to locate files on the harddisk, it works fine, but I can't find any function that receives the FileType... I've searched for other classes like the CFile but with no succeed.
how do I receive the filetype description of a file?
Triskelion
Can you give me an example of what you mean by file type?
ASKER
A description of the extension like "Winamp media file" or "Textdocument" or "WinRAR ZIP Archive".
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>>I usually used the SHGetFileInfo with the SHGFI_TYPENAME argument to receive the filetype before I began with MFC.
Why did you stop using it? All Win32 API fns are availabe in MFC. Example:
SHFILEINFO rInfo;
SHGetFileInfo( "*.ZIP", 0, &rInfo, sizeof(rInfo), SHGFI_TYPENAME );
MessageBox( rInfo.szTypeName, "The type is..." );
-- Dan
Why did you stop using it? All Win32 API fns are availabe in MFC. Example:
SHFILEINFO rInfo;
SHGetFileInfo( "*.ZIP", 0, &rInfo, sizeof(rInfo), SHGFI_TYPENAME );
MessageBox( rInfo.szTypeName, "The type is..." );
-- Dan
ASKER
aha, ok, I thought that all api functions was included within the MFC.
You were correct before: All Win32 API functions are included in MFC.
-- Dan
-- Dan