Creating a filesystem directory - is this possible from a plug-in.

[michael_eisenman@adobeforums.com]

I am wondering if this level of File system access is possible using the SDK ?

I know that I can read any file system file / directory - but is is possible to create a directory if needed ?

[Bernd Alheit]

know that I can read any file system file / directory - but is is possible
to create a directory if needed ?




Yes. A plug-in can use all operating system functions.

[michael_eisenman@adobeforums.com]

I have tried to use basic Directory:: Members and it doesn;t appear that any of the native IO routines will function .

I have looked for albeit, not entirely exhaustively, for a correlary Create or Directory create function in the activedocs but have not found any yet.

[michael_eisenman@adobeforums.com]

I have located this - but this appears to be more of a virtual directory than an actual physical filesystem directory on an active fielsystem .

// Create and activate a new directory
var oDirInfo = { dirStdEntryID: "dir0", dirStdEntryName: "Employee LDAP Directory", dirStdEntryPrefDirHandlerID: "Adobe.PPKMS.ADSI", dirStdEntryDirType: "LDAP", server: "ldap0.example.com", port: 389 };
var sh = security.getHandler( "Adobe.PPKMS" );

var newDir = sh.newDirectory(); newDir.info = oDirInfo;

[michael_eisenman@adobeforums.com]

In order to read data from a filesystem file : the following Adobe abstraction must be used :
eg.

ASFileRead(prcFile,buffer,1024);

Is there also an ASDirectory member ?
I havent found it yet ...

[michael_eisenman@adobeforums.com]

Apparently :
It is an ASFileSysCreatePath function ...

I found it ;;; thanks -