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Obtaining physical parameters for a drive: sectors, clusters, cylinders...
Passing data records between VFP applications via the Clipboard
Peer-to-peer LAN messenger built with Mailslot API functions
Reading and setting system access privileges for the current process
Reading and setting the priority class values for the current process and thread
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Running MSDOS Shell as a child process with redirected input and output (smarter RUN command)
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Starting external program from VFP and waiting for its termination
Storing content of the Clipboard to a bitmap file
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Subclassing CommandButton control to create BackColor property
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Testing serial ports
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Using GetFileSize
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How to set Creation Date/Time for a folder (WinNT)

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This code sample has been translated from VB code. The original link is Modifying the Date/Time of Folders and Files Under Windows NT+ at VBNet developers resource centre.

 
? ChangeFolderFileDate("c:\myfolder", DATETIME())
 
FUNCTION ChangeFolderFileDate(cFolder, tDate)
#DEFINE GENERIC_WRITE  0x40000000 
#DEFINE GENERIC_READ   0x80000000
#DEFINE FILE_SHARE_DELETE 4
#DEFINE FILE_SHARE_READ   1
#DEFINE OPEN_EXISTING     3
#DEFINE FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS 0x02000000
 
    DECLARE INTEGER CreateFile IN kernel32;
        STRING lpFileName, INTEGER dwDesiredAccess,;
        INTEGER dwShareMode, INTEGER lpSecurityAttr,;
        INTEGER dwCreationDisp, INTEGER dwFlagsAndAttrs,;
        INTEGER hTemplateFile
 
    LOCAL hFolder
 
    * use CreateFile for Windows NT/XP/2000 and OpenFile for Win9/Me
    hFolder = CreateFile(cFolder, GENERIC_WRITE+GENERIC_READ,;
        FILE_SHARE_READ+FILE_SHARE_DELETE, 0, OPEN_EXISTING,;
        FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, 0)
 
    IF hFolder = -1  && failed to open
        RETURN .F.   && use GetLastError to get an error code
    ENDIF
 
    DECLARE INTEGER CloseHandle IN kernel32 INTEGER hObject
 
    DECLARE INTEGER SetFileTime IN kernel32;
        INTEGER hFile, STRING lpCreationTime,;
        STRING lpLastAccessTime, STRING lpLastWriteTime
 
    DECLARE INTEGER SystemTimeToFileTime IN kernel32;
        STRING lpSystemTime, STRING @lpFileTime
 
    DECLARE INTEGER LocalFileTimeToFileTime IN kernel32;
        STRING lpLocalFileTime, STRING @lpFileTime
 
    LOCAL cSysTime, cFileTime, nResult
    cFileTime = Repli(Chr(0),8)
 
    cSysTime = num2buf(Year(tDate)) + num2buf(Month(tDate)) +;
        num2buf(DOW(tDate,0)) + num2buf(Day(tDate)) +;
        num2buf(Hour(tDate)) + num2buf(Minute(tDate)) + Repli(Chr(0),4)
 
    * converting SYSTEMTIME data to FILITIME
    = SystemTimeToFileTime(cSysTime, @cFileTime)
 
    * in case your local time is different from UTC
    = LocalFileTimeToFileTime(cFileTime, @cFileTime)
 
    * file handle, created, last-access, last-write
    nResult = SetFileTime(hFolder, cFileTime, 0,0)
 
    = CloseHandle(hFolder)  && important
RETURN (nResult <> 0)
 
FUNCTION num2buf(nValue)
RETURN Chr(MOD(m.nValue,256)) + CHR(INT(m.nValue/256))
 
 
 

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Created: 2003-04-24 21:03:10  
Modified: 2003-04-24 21:08:19  
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