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Feb 21 2008, 01:12 AM
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Big Brother Bill is Watching You ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: HJT Team Posts: 2,842 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
Here is my method: CODE Private Sub CopyFile(ByVal OldFile As String, ByVal NewFile As String) Const bufferLength As Integer = 1000 'Number of bytes to do at once log(OldFile + " -> " + NewFile) 'Log the fact that we are copying these files Try 'Create the directory if it does not exist Directory.CreateDirectory(NewFile.Substring(0, NewFile.LastIndexOf("\"))) 'Open the files Dim FS As New FileStream(OldFile, FileMode.Open) Dim FW As New FileStream(NewFile, FileMode.Create) 'Initialize a buffer to hold the data in ram temporarily Dim Buffer(bufferLength) As Byte 'Initialize "Pointers" of sorts to deal with the buffer 'Copy the file Dim cur As Long For cur = 0 To (FS.Length - 1) Step bufferLength 'if whats left in the file cannot fill our buffer, than we want it so the buffer does not have garbage for the 'of the file. So, if the amount of distance left is less than the bufferlength, jump to the else If (FS.Length - FS.Position) > bufferLength Then FS.Read(Buffer, 0, bufferLength) FW.Write(Buffer, 0, bufferLength) RaiseEvent fileProgressUpdate(CInt(cur / FS.Position * 100)) Else Dim tmp As Integer = CInt((FS.Length - FS.Position)) RaiseEvent fileProgressUpdate(100) FS.Read(Buffer, 0, bufferLength) FW.Write(Buffer, 0, tmp) End If Next FS.Close() FW.Close() RaiseEvent fileProgressUpdate(0) Catch e As Exception RaiseEvent fileProgressUpdate(0) log("ERROR: " + e.Message) End Try End Sub The only reason I am going through something so complex for something so simple is to get a progressbar on the screen (which is what the FileProgressUpdate event is for). My problem is that the else block in the for loop: CODE Dim tmp As Integer = CInt((FS.Length - FS.Position)) RaiseEvent fileProgressUpdate(100) FS.Read(Buffer, 0, bufferLength) FW.Write(Buffer, 0, tmp) does not seem to be executing. Every file I run this thing on has the last bufferLength bytes cut off the end. One more thing, I tried just removing that if...else block alltogether and having it read/write bufferlength every time, but that writes a ton of garbage at the end of the file. Because this is going into a backup program, its kinda important that it can copy a file. Any ideas? -------------------- In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM (By clicking this link). Sometimes things get overlooked... I don't want to overlook ya!
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Feb 21 2008, 07:32 AM
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![]() Hail Groovicus! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Site Admin Posts: 5,849 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Vermillion, SD Member No.: 689 |
IF you are not sure what it is doing, you should be printing out statements to the console like "I am in the else loop", or "Wscript.Echo FS.Length - FS.Position". You don't really have a question just yet. you have a suspicion. Prove to yourself that it doesn't work.
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Feb 21 2008, 01:25 PM
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Big Brother Bill is Watching You ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: HJT Team Posts: 2,842 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
No, I know its getting into the else block
If I set breakpoints they stop execution of the program inside of the the else block and let me step through the else block line by line. Its some sort of logic error on my part. This is really odd.... Im thinking there was something wrong with another function.... because it seems to be working.... NVM then. -------------------- In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM (By clicking this link). Sometimes things get overlooked... I don't want to overlook ya!
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Feb 21 2008, 09:40 PM
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![]() Hail Groovicus! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Site Admin Posts: 5,849 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Vermillion, SD Member No.: 689 |
You are trying to use a high level language to do some low level stuff, which is not what it was really designed to do. My suspicion is that you are not flushing the buffers to make sure that everything is out of them before closing the stream though, so whatever is left in the buffer gets stuck there when the program terminates.
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Feb 21 2008, 09:52 PM
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Big Brother Bill is Watching You ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: HJT Team Posts: 2,842 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
Its odd.... it seems to have fixed itself. I think I was using the compiler incorrectly.
Oh, and the Close() call flushes the buffers. I'd use C++ for this, I like that language better. But I have one problem: I dont know Win32API. Do you know of any good books / reference materials that deal with that? -------------------- In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM (By clicking this link). Sometimes things get overlooked... I don't want to overlook ya!
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Feb 21 2008, 10:34 PM
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![]() Hail Groovicus! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Site Admin Posts: 5,849 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Vermillion, SD Member No.: 689 |
QUOTE Close() call flushes the buffers. In many languages, it has to be done manually. I have never done GUI stuff in C++, so I am afraid that i can not recommend anything. -------------------- |
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Feb 22 2008, 10:49 AM
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Forum Regular ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 248 Joined: 25-January 07 Member No.: 108,272 |
I dont know Win32API. Do you know of any good books / reference materials that deal with that? Well I'm guessing your using VB.Net. So I would recommend API-Guide its free. Its mainly for VB6 but there are a few .Net clips in there. -------------------- Keith
http://www.martin2k.co.uk/forums I've been programming with VB for 12 years. Started with VB4 16bit Pro, VB5 Pro, VB6 Pro/Enterprise and now VB3 Pro. But I'm no expert, I'm still learning. |
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