There is no mql4 methods.
Start with File Operations via WinAPI - MQL4 Articles and File Operations without Limitations - MQL4 Code Base
Then start researching m$ File Times (Windows)
Or write the time to the file when you modify it.
There is no mql4 methods.
Start with File Operations via WinAPI - MQL4 Articles and File Operations without Limitations - MQL4 Code Base
Then start researching m$ File Times (Windows)
THX, FileTime structure caused some surprise.
string GetFileTimeToStr (string filename, int WhatTime) //1: lpCreationTime 2: lpLastAccessTime 3: lpLastWriteTime { int handle=_lopen (filename,OF_READ); int lpCreationTime[2]; int lpLastAccessTime[2]; int lpLastWriteTime[2]; GetFileTime (handle, lpCreationTime, lpLastAccessTime, lpLastWriteTime); int FileTimeInlpSystemTime[4]; int lpTime[2]; string WhatTimeStr; switch (WhatTime) { case 1: lpTime[0]=lpCreationTime[0]; lpTime[1]=lpCreationTime[1]; WhatTimeStr="CreationTime"; break; case 2: lpTime[0]=lpLastAccessTime[0]; lpTime[1]=lpLastAccessTime[1]; WhatTimeStr="LastAccessTime"; break; case 3: lpTime[0]=lpLastWriteTime[0]; lpTime[1]=lpLastWriteTime[1]; WhatTimeStr="LastWriteTime"; break; } FileTimeToSystemTime(lpTime, FileTimeInlpSystemTime); int nYear=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[0]&0x0000FFFF; int nMonth=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[0]>>16; int nDay=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[1]>>16; int nHour=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[2]&0x0000FFFF; int nMin=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[2]>>16; int nSec=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[3]&0x0000FFFF; string time_string=WhatTimeStr+": "+FormatDateTime(nYear,nMonth,nDay,nHour,nMin,nSec); // ???? Alert(Symbol(), " handle:", handle, " nYear:", nYear, " nMonth:", nMonth, " nDay:", nDay, " ", time_string); _lclose (handle); return(time_string); }
THX, FileTime structure caused some surprise.
#import "kernel32.dll" int _lopen (string path, int of); int _lcreat (string path, int attrib); int _llseek (int handle, int offset, int origin); int _lread (int handle, string buffer, int bytes); int _lwrite (int handle, string buffer, int bytes); int _lclose (int handle); int GetFileTime (int handle, int& lpCreationTime[], int& lpLastAccessTime[], int& lpLastWriteTime[]); bool FileTimeToSystemTime(int& lpFileTime[], int& lpSystemTime[]); int CreateDirectoryA(string path, int& atrr[]); void GetLocalTime(int& TimeArray[]); void GetSystemTime(int& TimeArray[]); int GetTimeZoneInformation(int& TZInfoArray[]); bool CopyFileA (string source_file, string destination_file, bool if_exist); //The LPDWORD return values from GetDiskFreeSpace() are not the same as "double &". A DWORD is an unsigned 4-byte integer. //A double is an 8-byte floating-point number. //Secondly, you cannot pass the address of a single int (or double) variable to a DLL in MQL4. You have to pass an array, //of which only the first element then gets used. bool GetDiskFreeSpaceA (string& as_dir, int& al_sectorspercluster[], int& al_bytespersector[], int& al_freeclusters[], int& al_totalclusters[]); #import
int handle=_lopen (filename,OF_READ);
_lopen not work, handle is -1
in MT4 Bulid 600
working good in 509
What is misstake?
_lopen not work, handle is -1
in MT4 Bulid 600
working good in 509
What is misstake?
THX,
I have seen it.
But I do not understand.
filename="C:"+BS+"example.txt";
I do not read this file, only open it...and read the modification date.
how to pass the filename variables to DLL?
I do not read this file, only open it...and read the modification date.
how to pass the filename variables to DLL?
You cannot use _lopen() in v600 (or, strictly speaking, there is no easy way of doing so). DLL calls now use Unicode strings. There is no version of _lopen() which takes Unicode parameters because it is a legacy function from 16-bit Windows.
You need to use CreateFileW() instead of _lopen(). (File handles are interchangeable between _lopen/_lclose and CreateFile/CloseHandle because _lopen is simply a wrapper around CreateFile.)
#import "kernel32" int CreateFileW(string, uint, int, int, int, int, int); int GetFileTime (int handle, int& lpCreationTime[], int& lpLastAccessTime[], int& lpLastWriteTime[]); bool FileTimeToSystemTime(int& lpFileTime[], int& lpSystemTime[]); int CloseHandle(int); #import string GetFileTimeToStr(string filename, int WhatTime) //1: lpCreationTime 2: lpLastAccessTime 3: lpLastWriteTime { string time_string = ""; int handle = CreateFileW(filename, 0x80000000 /* GENERIC_READ */, 0, 0, 3 /* OPEN_EXISTING */, 0, 0); if (handle == -1) { // Failed to open file } else { int lpCreationTime[2]; int lpLastAccessTime[2]; int lpLastWriteTime[2]; if (!GetFileTime (handle, lpCreationTime, lpLastAccessTime, lpLastWriteTime)) { // Failed to get file-time } else { int FileTimeInlpSystemTime[4]; int lpTime[2]; string WhatTimeStr; switch (WhatTime) { case 1: lpTime[0]=lpCreationTime[0]; lpTime[1]=lpCreationTime[1]; WhatTimeStr="CreationTime"; break; case 2: lpTime[0]=lpLastAccessTime[0]; lpTime[1]=lpLastAccessTime[1]; WhatTimeStr="LastAccessTime"; break; case 3: lpTime[0]=lpLastWriteTime[0]; lpTime[1]=lpLastWriteTime[1]; WhatTimeStr="LastWriteTime"; break; } FileTimeToSystemTime(lpTime, FileTimeInlpSystemTime); int nYear=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[0]&0x0000FFFF; int nMonth=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[0]>>16; int nDay=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[1]>>16; int nHour=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[2]&0x0000FFFF; int nMin=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[2]>>16; int nSec=FileTimeInlpSystemTime[3]&0x0000FFFF; time_string=WhatTimeStr+": "+ FormatDateTime(nYear,nMonth,nDay,nHour,nMin,nSec); } CloseHandle(handle); } return(time_string); } void OnStart() { Print( GetFileTimeToStr("c:\\windows\\win.ini", 3) ); }
You may also need to bear in mind that the location of files created by MQL4 FileOpen() is now relative to TERMINAL_DATA_PATH, not TerminalPath().
You cannot use _lopen() in v600 (or, strictly speaking, there is no easy way of doing so). DLL calls now use Unicode strings. There is no version of _lopen() which takes Unicode parameters because it is a legacy function from 16-bit Windows.
You need to use CreateFileW() instead of _lopen(). (File handles are interchangeable between _lopen/_lclose and CreateFile/CloseHandle because _lopen is simply a wrapper around CreateFile.)
You may also need to bear in mind that the location of files created by MQL4 FileOpen() is now relative to TERMINAL_DATA_PATH, not TerminalPath().
Thank you, this code is perfectly.
I do not understand, what is different single BS os double BS?
It works booth.
filename="c:\windows\win.ini"; filename="c:\\windows\\win.ini";
I do not understand, what is different single BS os double BS?
See https://docs.mql4.com/basis/types/string
MQL4 uses the same mechanism as many other languages such as C and Javascript where you can put special characters in a string constant by prefacing them with \
For example, "Column1\tColumn2" means "Column1 <tab> Column2". Similarly, "Column1\nColumn2" means "Column1 <new-line> Column2"
Because the \ character has a special meaning, you cannot just use \ in a string constant to mean "backslash". You have to use \\
\\ gets replaced with \ in the same way that \t gets replaced with <tab> and \n gets replaced with <new-line>
Therefore, if you do the following:
string filename="c:\\windows\\win.ini";
Print(filename);
...you should see the output "c:\windows\win.ini"
Strictly speaking, it is actually possible to do the following:
string filename="c:\windows\win.ini"; Print(filename);
...but this only works because \w has no meaning, and therefore MQL4 ignores it as a special character and treats it as separate \ and w characters
However, it is unwise to rely on this, and you should always use \\. For example, the following would not work as expected because \t does have a meaning:
string filename="c:\windows\test.ini"; Print(filename);
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