Hi,

How can I read the details of a file with Visual Basic, like name, size, type, date, dimensions.

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best think you can do is to use the filesystemobject.. there way you can get all the data from a file or folder...



HTH

Gonzalo

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for the name, use Dir()
for the size: FileLen()
for the type: GetAttr()
for the date: FileDateTime()

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Thanks guys!

How about getting the dimensions of a TIFF file or image, when I select an image windows shows the dimension of that image, is there a way to read that information with visual basic?

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yes, use LoadPicture to load the file in a StdPicture object, then use the Width and Height properties of StdPicture (although I do not know if LoadPicture works with TIFF files)

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So, if LoadPicture does not work with TIFF files, that would be the third way your signature refers to? :)

Thanks guys, I found A library that can do that, VIC32.dll (Victor Library www.catenary.com) is kinda expensive for what I need, It has all other capabilities that I'm not interested, but I would like to know how to do it without using that library.

Thanks!

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Go to http://www.wotsit.org/list.asp?page=5&fc=1&search=&al=, and scroll down to TIFF.

There are several files there that describe the format of a TIFF file. I selected the last one. It gave me a ZIP of a PDF which, on page 18 of 121 describes how to directly read the size info about a TIFF out of the file itself——and its [u]free</u>!

Thanks for the link Brian, I was reading the page you mentioned and at the end there is a list of all the tags supported by a TIFF file, The only problem for me is that I don't undestand how to read that information with VB6, I'm kinda new with programming. Do I have to load the TIFF image into memory if so ? How do I address those tags?

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What I would do is read the file into a byte array, then examine the bytes at the salient locations.

See FreeFile, Open, Seek and Get() for pretty good details on how you can read a file in groups.

With Seek you can move immediately to the byte of interest. With Get() you can read a byte at a time. There isn't any need to read the whole file into memory, in anwer to your question.