wxCopyFile when dir dont exist.

[dkaip]

Hello. If i have wxCopyFile(source, dest) and dir of destination file don’t exist, wxCopyFile can make destination dir automatically?
Thank you.
Jim

[Manolo]

Better use wxFileName https://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_file_name.html
Check first if the dir exists: wxFileName::DirExists(), and create it if not: wxFileName::Mkdir(...)

[dkaip]

Yes this is the way. But dirName is like dri1/dir2/dir3 ... and as i see wxMkdir dont make subdirs...
Only if dirName is only one dir name.
Thank you
Jim

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    wxFileName xx(dest);
    wxString dirName =xx.GetPath();
    if (!wxDirExists(dirName))
        wxMkdir(dirName);

[PB]

Did you try what Manolo suggested, i.e. calling wxFileName::Mkdir() with flags containing wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL?

[dkaip]

My program runs in /home/a/myfolder/ and i want to make the dir...
dirName=/home/a/video/home/a/Desktop/folder/to/
but wxMkdir(dirName,wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL) don’t makes it.
What i have wrong?

[PB]

I guess I am missing the joke here?

[dkaip]

What is the joke?
I don’t understand, really.
I am try to make a clone of a file in other place, relative to existing dir(/home/a/video).
The file is at /home/a/Desktop/folder/to/.
All that for non destructive process.
I is really important to construct the new directory and then copy the file.
The program's dir is at other place.
Thank you.
Jim.

[doublemax]

Add a wxLogMessage( dirName ) to check that it actually contains what you expect.

[PB]

What is the joke? I don’t understand, really.

Two people suggested that you should try wxFileName::Mkdir() instead of ::wxMkdir(). Additionally, you have been provided a direct link to the documentation of the said method as well as the value you should use for its flag parameter.

Yet, you still kept talking about ::wxMkdir() so I assumed this was some kind of an elaborate joke I am not on...

On MSW, wxFileName::Mkdir() works as expected, i.e.,

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wxFileName("C:\\a\\b\\c\\d\\").Mkdir(wxS_DIR_DEFAULT,  wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL);

creates all the directories.

If it does not work like that on Linux (assuming there are no permissions issues), you should have said so (and report it as a bug).

[dkaip]

Ok my wrong, i am new to wxWidgets. I will make as you say.
So i make it and nothing happens(there are no permissions issues).
Maybe because some directories have Unicode characters?
Trying wxMessageBox(dirName); take
/home/a/Βίντεο/home/a/Επιφάνεια εργασίας
There is some problem maybe with Unicode..
But even the code bellow, to convert to Unicode nothing...

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    wxString dirName =xx.GetPath();

    dirName=wxString(dirName.mbc_str(),wxConvUTF8);

    wxMessageBox(dirName);

    if (!wxDirExists(dirName))
        if( wxFileName::Mkdir(dirName,wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL))wxMessageBox(dest);

Even if all characters of dirName are ASCII...

/home/a/home/a/myfolder

Thank you
Jim.

[dkaip]

Ok it works as PB make.
The method is wxFileName(("/home/a/home/a/myfolder/")).Mkdir(wxS_DIR_DEFAULT,wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL);
If / don’t exist at first then puts home/a/home/a/myfolder in current dir.
If / don’t exist at last the myfolder dir dont make it.

Thank you.
Jim.

[doublemax]

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wxFileName::Mkdir(dirName,wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL)

Check the order of parameters.

Should be:

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wxFileName::Mkdir( dirName, wxS_DIR_DEFAULT, wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL )