[Interest] using windows FindFirstFile

[David Ching]

> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:58:32 +0000
> From: Graham Labdon <Graham.Labdon at avalonsciences.com>
> Subject: [Interest] using windows FindFirstFile
> 
> In the code below the call to FindFirstFile always fails with the error
'ERROR_INVALID_NAME'
> The file that I set in searchPath does exist.
> Does anyone know the correct way to do this?
> ...
>  WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData;
>  HANDLE hFind;
>  QString searchPath = "C:/jobs/daryll/Rcd/f_000001.rcd";
>  WCHAR p[100];
>  int x = searchPath.toWCharArray(p);
>  hFind = FindFirstFile(p, &FindFileData);


First, you should declare
  WCHAR p[MAX_PATH];  // MAX_PATH is max length of a Windows path gotten
from <drive>:<path> syntax

The real problem is searchPath should be e.g.
   QString searchPath = "C:/jobs/daryll/Rcd/*";    // include wildcard '*'

-- David