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(SST) ShlWAPI.pas Version 1.08 |
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| Developer Reference |
| Checks if the specified file or folder exists. |
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| Global (i.e. this function can be called/accessed from code in any unit that includes/uses (SST)ShlWAPI.pas). |
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function PathFileExists(pszPath : LPCSTR) : BOOL; |
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| pszPath [in] | A pointer to a zero terminated string that specifies the path and name of the file system object (typically file or folder) of interest. This string, including the terminating NULL character, should/may not exceed NAX_PATH (= 260) characters in length. |
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| If the function was able to confirm the existence of the file system object, it returns TRUE, if not, FALSE. |
| Remarks |
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| This function provides the same functionality as the Delphi, SysUtils and FileCtrl units, FileExists and DirectoryExists functions. |
| If the function fails when called with a fully qualified path beyond the drive root (as in the example(s), below), the Windows API function GetLastError will generally only return error code 2 (ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND). However, at the time of publication of this document (September 2016) we had not yet tested it with paths restricted to the root and UNC, server\share paths. |
| The function appears to determine the existence of the file system object using the same function as the Delphi, FileCtrl DirectoryExists function, namely, GetFileAttributes. |
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| PROCEDURE TForm4.TestShlWAPIPathFileExists(Sender : TObject); VAR nametovrify : STRING; VAR apiretval : BOOL; VAR newinfoline : STRING; BEGIN nametovrify := ''; apiretval := FALSE; newinfoline := ''; nametovrify := 'C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll'; newinfoline := 'PathFileExists called with ' + nametovrify; Memo1.Lines.Add(newinfoline); apiretval := PathFileExists(PChar(nametovrify)); IF apiretval THEN newinfoline := 'returned TRUE' ELSE newinfoline := 'returned FALSE'; Memo1.Lines.Add(newinfoline); nametovrify := 'C:\Windows\System32\DummyFolderName.xls'; newinfoline := 'PathFileExists called with ' + nametovrify; Memo1.Lines.Add(newinfoline); apiretval := PathFileExists(PChar(nametovrify)); IF apiretval THEN newinfoline := 'returned TRUE' ELSE BEGIN newinfoline := 'returned FALSE'; exterrorcode := INTEGER(GetLastError()); newinfoline := newinfoline + ' GetLastError provided the additional error info : ' + IntToStr(exterrorcode); END; Memo1.Lines.Add(newinfoline); Memo1.Lines.Add(''); END; |
| Provided Windows was installed under C:\Windows, and you have not added a file or folder named "DummyFolderName.xls" to the System32 folder, the above example ought to produce the following output: |
| PathFileExists called with C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll returned TRUE PathFileExists called with C:\Windows\System32\DummyFolderName.xls returned FALSE GetLastError provided the additional error info : 2 |
| Requirements | |
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| Unit: | Declared and imported in (SST)ShlWAPI.pas |
| Library: | (SST)ShlWAPI.dcu/(SST)ShlWAPI.obj |
| Unicode: | Implemented as ANSI (PathFileExists and PathFileExistsA) and Unicode (PathFileExistsW) functions. |
| Min. ShlWAPI.dll version according to MS SDK doc.: | 4.71 |
| Min. ShlWAPI.dll version based on SST research: | 4.71 |
| Min. OS version(s) according to Microsoft SDK doc.: | Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with Internet Explorer 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0 |
| Min. OS version(s) according to SST research.: | Windows NT 4.0 with IE 4.0, Windows 95 with IE 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and later |
| See Also |
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| PathFindOnPath, PathIsDirectory, PathIsSystemFolder. |
| Windows APIs: PathFileExists, PathIsDirectory PathIsRooty PathAddExtension. |
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