excluding archives of a folder

thomaz · March 4th, 2004, 02:31 PM

Hi;

How can i exclude a file of a folder???

Can i use the DELETE or REMOVE method???

There is another way to do this????

Thanks

planoie · March 4th, 2004, 05:23 PM

To what context are you referring? You haven't provided a whole lot of useful information here.

thomaz · March 5th, 2004, 09:23 AM

To Planoie;

First I would like to thank the attentionâ¦.

I have a program that save archives like (*.gif, *.JPG) in a folder of my C driver (C:\TESTE\FIGURAS).

To save the picturebox image in my Hard Drive i use the SAVE method. For example (this.pctImagem.Image.Save (CaminhoEscolhido);).

This process functions very well.

But now i want to create a button that give me the option to exclude an image in my hard drive, and according to my research the methods DELETE and REMOVE are used to exclude an image from a picturebox. I dont know the correct method to exclude an archive of a folder in a hard drive.

I would like to know the correct way to exclude files from a hard disk according to a path that passed with parameter for the method.

Since already very obliged

KABay · March 5th, 2004, 10:53 AM

Your requirements are still not clear but I would like to take a stab at what I think you mean.

You know how to add and remove images from your picturebox, right? So you have no problems there.

I assume you load your picture box by iterating through all of the files in a specified directory and either directly (press a button and display the next/previous image) or indirectly (having loaded a list box with image names/filespecs) display the appropriate image.

Since you can 'save' an Image object to disk you are hoping there is a way to tell the Image object to go find its instance on the hard drive and remove it.

It can't be done (that way). An Image is a object in memory. It may or may not have a serialized/physical version on the hard drive so it would violate object-orientated concepts for an Image object to 'handle' Stream activities. The file is a physical object on the hard drive. To delete it you must go find it on the hard drive:

Code:

    // Get the files from the directory
    System.IO.FileInfo[] files = dirInfo.GetFiles("*.jpg");

    // Add each file name and full name including path
    // to the ListView.
    if (files != null)
    {
        foreach ( System.IO.FileInfo file in files )
        {
            if (file.Name == sNameOfFileToDelete) 
            {
                // You found it so delete it ...
                file.Delete;
                // ... and you are done so 
                //  jump out of the for...each loop
                break;
            }
        }
    }

thomaz · March 8th, 2004, 09:09 AM

THANKS for your replay;

You it obtained to perceive my problem accurately and show me the solution to my problem.

Thanks;

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by KABay
Your requirements are still not clear but I would like to take a stab at what I think you mean.

You know how to add and remove images from your picturebox, right? So you have no problems there.

I assume you load your picture box by iterating through all of the files in a specified directory and either directly (press a button and display the next/previous image) or indirectly (having loaded a list box with image names/filespecs) display the appropriate image.

Since you can 'save' an Image object to disk you are hoping there is a way to tell the Image object to go find its instance on the hard drive and remove it.

It can't be done (that way). An Image is a object in memory. It may or may not have a serialized/physical version on the hard drive so it would violate object-orientated concepts for an Image object to 'handel' Stream activities. The file is a physical object on the hard drive. To delete it you must go find it on the hard drive:

Code:

    // Get the files from the directory
    System.IO.FileInfo[] files = dirInfo.GetFiles("*.jpg");

    // Add each file name and full name including path
    // to the ListView.
    if (files != null)
    {
        foreach ( System.IO.FileInfo file in files )
        {
            if (file.Name == sNameOfFileToDelete) 
            {
                // You found it so delete it ...
                file.Delete;
                // ... and you are done so 
                //  jump out of the for...each loop
                break;
            }
        }
    }