Question about RecFileListToArray.au3 with FileOpenDialog

[tuatara]

Hi guys,

With the help of Melba23, i am now using the quoted script below,

to copy a directory tree and move the files in it like 'filename.txt' to 'filename.txt.old'

Works great, but is it possible to replace setting of $sOldPath = "Old_Path"

by using the 'FileOpenDialog' like $source = FileOpenDialog ??

To make it possible to select some files AND folders as input and still use RecFileListToArray ?

Normally i use long script for this , because the input can contain 1 or multple files or folders.

#include <RecFileListToArray.au3>

; Declare paths

$sOldPath = "Old_Path"

$sNewPath = "New_Path"

; Get list of files within old path

$aList = _RecFileListToArray($sOldPath, "*.*", 1, 1, 1)

For $i = 1 To $aList[0]

; Copy each of the files to the new path with the added extension

; note use of the "8" flag to create the structure if required

FileCopy($sOldPath & "\" & $aList[$i], $sNewPath & "\" & $aList[$i] & ".old", 8)

Next

Thanks,

Tuatara

Edited November 1, 2011 by tuatara

[Melba23]

tuatara,

possible to select some files AND folders as input

No, you need a single folder path as the root for the UDF.

Could you explain a little more what you mean by "select some files AND folders as input"? You can already search for multiple file types - do you mean you want to search within multiple folders? If so then you need to get these multiple folders and then run the UDF on them one at a time. You might want to look at my ChooseFileFolder UDF - that will let you choose multiple folders.

M23

[tuatara]

Hi Melba23,

First of all thanks for your help AGAIN

Of course, perhaps i can shine some light on this, i can imagine it might need that

In the quoted example above the files are copied to the new tree with a name like 'filename.old',

But in fact, this is just a part of a script i wrote ,which is quite large.

And the "copy to filename.old part" is not really used in my script,

What i do is, i fire a program there that compresses the file with a new kind of compression program i wrote

So with the script as it is now, i can select 'tree' on drive X: which i copy to drive Y: and Tuatara-compress every file in it.

That works great, but if i want to copy-compress , just 1 file, or a few files or, a few files and 1 folder from X: to drive Y: it is not possible.

Another difficulty i ran into was: The first field of the array filled by FileOpenDialog behaves different if you have 1, or multiple files selected ....

In one case it contains a file , in the other case a directory ?!

So all i want to do now, is to make it possible, to:

- make any selection of files and folders on drive X: and copy-compress them in the same structure/tree on drive Y:

Without running 3 separate scripts (what i do now) and ask before you start , something like:

- Do you want to copy-compress 1 file press A

- Do you want to copy-compress multiple files press B

- Do you want to copy-compress a tree press C

Tuatara

Edited November 2, 2011 by tuatara

[Melba23]

tuataram,

Did you look at my ChooseFileFolder UDF as I suggested?

That will allow you to do exactly that - all you need to do is pass different parameters to the UDF depending on what the user wants to do.

Let me have a think about how best to set it up and I will try to post something later this evening.

M23

[Melba23]

tuatara,

Here we go - still needs polishing but it will give you the idea:

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#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <ChooseFileFolder.au3>

; Here is the root folder for all the selections
Global $sPath = "C:\Program Files\AutoIt3"

; create our GUI to allow the user to choose his selection type
$hGUI = GUICreate("Test", 500, 500)

GUICtrlCreateLabel("What do you want to compress today?" , 10, 10, 480, 30)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18)
$hBut_OneFile = GUICtrlCreateButton("One File", 10, 50, 180, 50)
$hBut_MulFile = GUICtrlCreateButton("Multiple Files", 10, 120, 180, 50)
$hBut_Tree = GUICtrlCreateButton("All files in a Folder Tree", 10, 190, 180, 50)

GUISetState()

; Get the GUI position to locate the CFF dialog
$aPos = WinGetPos($hGUI)

While 1

    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $hBut_OneFile
            _OneFile()
        Case $hBut_MulFile
            _MulFile()
        Case $hBut_Tree
            _Tree()
    EndSwitch

WEnd

Func _OneFile()

    ; Only allow a single file to be selected
    $sSelection = _CFF_Choose("Choose a file", 300, 500, $aPos[0] + 100, $aPos[1], $sPath)
    ; Display the result
    MsgBox(0, "Selection", $sSelection)

EndFunc

Func _MulFile()

    ; Allow multiple files to be selected
    $sSelection = _CFF_Choose("Choose multiple files", 300, 500, $aPos[0] + 100, $aPos[1], $sPath, "*", 0, False)
    ; Convert the selection into an array
    $aSelection = StringSplit($sSelection, "|")
    ; Display the array
    _ArrayDisplay($aSelection)

EndFunc

Func _Tree()

    ; Only allow the selection of a single folder
    $sSelection = _CFF_Choose("Choose the start folder", 300, 500, $aPos[0] + 100, $aPos[1], $sPath, "*", 2)
    ; Display the folder chosen
    MsgBox(0, "Selection", $sSelection)
    ; List all the files within that folder tree
    $aTree_Content = _RecFileListToArray($sSelection, "*.*", 1, 1, 1, 2)
    ; And display them
    _ArrayDisplay($aTree_Content)

EndFunc

In each case you get the files chosen by the user so you can do what you want with them.

If you know the folder at the root of the tree from which you are going to choose files/folders, you can prescan the whole tree to speed up the appearance of the list of choices in the dialog - you can also use mouse double-clicks to select items if you use the _CFF_RegMsg function.

All is explained in the UDF - or of course you can take the easy route and ask me directly in the forum.

M23