AddFolder Usage OCX - Issue creating disc with multi-tiers

craig · **Joined:** Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:18 pm **Posts:** 8

Friends-

I'm having some issues recreating the correct folder structure on DVD from the hard drive. I've created an disc-spanning tool. Here's the hard drive:

d:\
--folder1 (small)
--folder2 (small)
--folder3 (huge - "My Music" and won't fit on one DVD)

Two DVDs are incorrectly created like:

DVD1
--folder1
--folder2
--ABBA (missing 'My Music' because I'm only adding the "ABBA" folder and not the parent folder "My Music\ABBA")
--Ben Folds - same issue as above

DVD2 - same issue as above
--Elton John
--and so one

My software is smart enough to slice up "My Music", but I'm not able to recreate the parent "My Music" folder on the DVDs. When creating nodes, I'm setting NAME = "My Music\ABBA" and FullName = "D:\My Music\ABBA".

Loops on each folder:
StarBurn.CNode Node = JolietImage.Root.AddFolder(name, dir.FullName);

I understand that I'm flattening the hard drive's folder structure by losing the "My Music", but what is the easiest way of retaining that heirarchy?

andrey(staff) · **Joined:** Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:31 pm **Posts:** 452

craig wrote:

Friends-

I'm having some issues recreating the correct folder structure on DVD from the hard drive. I've created an disc-spanning tool. Here's the hard drive:

d:\
--folder1 (small)
--folder2 (small)
--folder3 (huge - "My Music" and won't fit on one DVD)

Two DVDs are incorrectly created like:

DVD1
--folder1
--folder2
--ABBA (missing 'My Music' because I'm only adding the "ABBA" folder and not the parent folder "My Music\ABBA")
--Ben Folds - same issue as above

DVD2 - same issue as above
--Elton John
--and so one

My software is smart enough to slice up "My Music", but I'm not able to recreate the parent "My Music" folder on the DVDs. When creating nodes, I'm setting NAME = "My Music\ABBA" and FullName = "D:\My Music\ABBA".

Loops on each folder:
StarBurn.CNode Node = JolietImage.Root.AddFolder(name, dir.FullName);

I understand that I'm flattening the hard drive's folder structure by losing the "My Music", but what is the easiest way of retaining that heirarchy?

Hello,

If I have got correct, you want to create to DVD with next content:

DVD1:
--folder1
--folder2
--My Music\ABBA
--My Music\Ben Folds

DVD2 - same issue as above
--My Music\Elton John
--My Music\and so one

for this you must get root node and create new subfolder "My Music",
after that you can add folders(ABBB, Ben Folds, ...) in this("My Music") node.

craig · **Joined:** Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:18 pm **Posts:** 8

Thanks for the reply-

Your assumptions are correct. The documentation wasn't helpful explaining creation of tiers.

How do I create an empty subfolder "My music" without using the "addFolder" which inherently attaches the subs?

The OCX CNode documentation looks to be formatted incorrectly:

AbsoluteName Return long file name in the image
AddFile This is AddFile, a member of class INode.
AddFolder Adds single file
Attributes Return date and time of the node
CreateNewFolder Adds subfolder with all its content
DateTime Creates new subfolder
FileSizeInBytes Return absolute file name
FileSystemImage Removes node from file system
FirstKid Return next kid
ImageLongName
ImageShortName Return attributes of node in the image
NextKid Return filesystem image object
Parent Return first kid
Remove Return node size in bytes

andrey(staff) · **Joined:** Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:31 pm **Posts:** 452

craig wrote:

Thanks for the reply-

Your assumptions are correct. The documentation wasn't helpful explaining creation of tiers.

How do I create an empty subfolder "My music" without using the "addFolder" which inherently attaches the subs?

The OCX CNode documentation looks to be formatted incorrectly:

AbsoluteName Return long file name in the image
AddFile This is AddFile, a member of class INode.
AddFolder Adds single file
Attributes Return date and time of the node
CreateNewFolder Adds subfolder with all its content
DateTime Creates new subfolder
FileSizeInBytes Return absolute file name
FileSystemImage Removes node from file system
FirstKid Return next kid
ImageLongName
ImageShortName Return attributes of node in the image
NextKid Return filesystem image object
Parent Return first kid
Remove Return node size in bytes

Yes, it's our inexcusable omission in this release.
You can use CreateNewFolder(..) for new folder creation.
You can get correct help by the link:

craig · **Joined:** Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:18 pm **Posts:** 8

Sadly, I can't determine how the 'CNode createNewFolder' & 'CNode AddFolder' work together.

I've added my notes within the test code below.

Code:

ArrayList dirs = new ArrayList();
dirs.Add(new DirectoryInfo(@"D:\music\Elton John"));
dirs.Add(new DirectoryInfo(@"D:\music\John Denver"));
dirs.Add(new DirectoryInfo(@"D:\music\Various Artists\ESPN Jock Jams")); //I need Various Artists and ESPN Jock Jams folders

foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in dirs)
{
   StarBurn.CJolietImage JolietImage = new StarBurn.CJolietImage();
   StarBurn.CNode rootNode = JolietImage.Root.AddFolder(dir.Name, dir.FullName); //this is the ESPN Jock Jams folder - HOW AND WHEN DO I ADD THE VARIOUS ARTISTS?  createNewFolder returns a CNode how and where is that used?
   foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in dirs)
   {
      StarBurn.CJolietImage JolietImage = new StarBurn.CJolietImage();
      StarBurn.CNode rootNode = JolietImage.Root.AddFolder(dir.Name, dir.FullName);

      if (dir.Parent.FullName == disk.getDiskRoot())
      { 
         DebugPrint("This folder is a folder within the root - not adding any parents");
      }
      else
      {
         DebugPrint("The folder's parent does match the disc's root.  Adding folder..");
         //HERE'S WHERE THE CREATENEWFOLDER CODE SHOULD GO
         rootNode.CreateNewFolder(dir.Parent.Name);//VARIOUS ARTISTS
      }

   }

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:43 pm

Andrew will write a sample (or modify existing one) to do what you want. Either tomorrow or on Monday.

craig · **Joined:** Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:18 pm **Posts:** 8

If he could explain the CNode CreateNewFolder & AddFolder usage through editing my code that would be more than perfect!

andrey(staff) · **Joined:** Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:31 pm **Posts:** 452

craig wrote:

If he could explain the CNode CreateNewFolder & AddFolder usage through editing my code that would be more than perfect!

Hello,

There is code sample which create next tree

\
---Music
---------A-ha(some subfolder and files)
---------Bryan Adams(some subfolder and files)
---------Brat2(some subfolder and files)
---------Tango_Roxanne.mp3(single file)

Code:

            StarBurn.CJolietImage JolietImage = new StarBurn.CJolietImage();
            StarBurn.CNode NodeMusic = JolietImage.Root.CreateNewFolder("Music");
            NodeMusic.AddFolder("A-Ha","C:\\Music\\A-Ha");
            NodeMusic.AddFolder("Bryan Adams","C:\\Music\\Bryan Adams");
            NodeMusic.AddFolder("Brat2","C:\\Music\\Brat2");
            NodeMusic.AddFile("Tango_Roxanne.mp3","C:\\Music\\19-El_Tango_De_Roxanne.mp3");            

            JolietImage.Build((uint)l_DiscInfo.NextWritableAddress, "Test", "");   

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