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[cazzajay]

was the command in delphi for making any IO errors not raise an exception

namely i am using the mkdir command to make a directory in win32

however if the directory already exists i want the application to ignore trying to make it and use the existing directory anyway silently

is there some lazarus equivalent to this?

thanks

cj

[Phil]

was the command in delphi for making any IO errors not raise an exception

namely i am using the mkdir command to make a directory in win32

however if the directory already exists i want the application to ignore trying to make it and use the existing directory anyway silently

is there some lazarus equivalent to this?

thanks

cj

Yes, but probably a safer approach is just to check if directory exists and, if so, don't call mkdir. Turning off exceptions probably not a good habit.

Thanks.

-Phil

[Mike J]

Couldn't you just use a try finally block to ignore the exception ?

[marcov]

Uses procedure "Forcedirectory" (or forcedirectories)

[cazzajay]

was the command in delphi for making any IO errors not raise an exception

namely i am using the mkdir command to make a directory in win32

however if the directory already exists i want the application to ignore trying to make it and use the existing directory anyway silently

is there some lazarus equivalent to this?

thanks

cj

Yes, but probably a safer approach is just to check if directory exists and, if so, don't call mkdir. Turning off exceptions probably not a good habit.

Thanks.

-Phil

thanks phil, how do i check if it exists. i know "fileexists" but didnt realise there was a directory equivalent!

and thanks to all the other guys - if phil's suggestion works, i think it will be the most "solid" solution

[cazzajay]

after not being lazy and doing some research it seems you use "directoryexists".  lol.