1<html><head> 2 <title>Metakit sample code - DisCat</title> 3</head><body bgcolor=white> 4 5<font face=Helvetica size=3> 6 7<!--begin--> 8<h2><img src="e4app.gif" alt="App Icon" border=0 align=left> 9Metakit sample code - DisCat</h2><br clear=left> 10 11<p>This application is a good starting point to learn about Metakit. </p> 12 13<p><b>What it does</b>: DisCat is a very simple disk catalog application. 14It recursively scans a directory tree on your hard disk and creates a data 15file with information about all files and subdirectories it finds during 16that scan. The total number of directories scanned is reported on the screen. 17</p> 18 19<p><b>What it illustrates</b>: This sample program shows how to set up 20a simple MFC-based application which uses Metakit. The source code of this 21application can be compiled for 32-bit Windows as well as for 16-bit Windows 22targets. DisCat has no practical use, other than to generate a not-quite-trivial 23datafile using the Metakit library. </p> 24 25<p><b>How to use it</b>: When you launch DISCAT.EXE (or the 16-bit version, 26which is called DISCAT16.EXE), you will see a dialog box with an edit box 27where you can enter a path name. After pressing the "Scan" button, 28the selected directory and all of its subdirectories will be traversed. 29Then you are asked to choose a name for the datafile which is to be used 30for storing the results. Apart from seeing confirmation in the form of 31a directory count, this application is rather boring... </p> 32 33<p><b>Known problems</b>: None, but you need to make sure that your system 34meets the requirements of either DISCAT.EXE or DISCAT16.EXE. </p> 35 36<p>The DISCAT.EXE application is a 32-bit application which requires Windows 3795 (or Windows NT, or Win32s, but neither of those two has been tried). 38In addition, you need to have two of the DLLs which come with Microsoft 39Visual C++ version 4.2: MFC42.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL (these contain the MFC 40library, and the runtime library, respectively). </p> 41 42<p>Alternately, you can use DISCAT16.EXE, which runs on either Windows 4395 or Windows 3.1(1). This application requires the file MFC250.DLL in 44the system directory (usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM) to start properly. </p> 45 46<p>These DLL requirements are caused by the fact that the sample programs 47and the Metakit libraries are distributed in the smallest possible format, 48which happens to be as MFC extension DLLs. As a result, you need to supply 49the MFC libraries yourself. Considering the fact that Metakit is currently 50only useful in combination with MFC, this should not be a problem. </p> 51 52<p><b>Files in EXAMPLES\DISCAT</b>: </p> 53 54<p>CATALOG.H, CATALOG.CPP - Creates a disk catalog object using Metakit 55 56<br>DISCAT.H, DISCAT.CPP - Main MFC application code 57<br>DISCAT.MAK, DISCAT.MDP - MSVC 4.2 project makefiles for Win32 58<br>DISCAT.DEF, DISCAT.RC - Linker definitions, Application resources 59<br>DISCAT16.MAK - MSVC 1.52 project makefile for Win16 60<br>RESOURCE.H - Resource symbol definitions 61<br>STDAFX.H, STDAFX.CPP - Used for precompiled headers 62<br>RES\*.* - Application resources </p> 63<!--end--> 64 65<center><p><hr size=1> 66|| 67 <a href="index.html" target="_top">Roadmap</a> 68 <a href="classes.html">Class Index</a> 69 <a href="samples.html">Sample Index</a> 70 || 71 <a href="intro.html">Introduction</a> 72 <a href="tips.html">Tips and Tricks</a> 73 || 74 75</center> 76</font> 77 78</body></html> 79
