copyright © 2006-2012 – curt hill windows files to hand-in and other things you should know

Copyright © 2006-2012 – Curt Hill

Windows Files to Hand-In

And other things you should know

Windows• The design and evolution of Windows

is to make the computer more user friendly

• It is intended for the– Computer illiterate– Computer semi-literate– And not for the computer sophisticated

• Developers are supposed to be able to see through the lies that Windows tells us


Developers• Those who:

– Design, write, test and document programs

• Developers use programs to make programs– Programs are also known as applications

• The person who designs a car must know more about the car and the highway than those who merely drive– Same with applications


Does Windows really lie?• The desktop is the root of the

computer– Actually the desktop is a subdirectory on

the C disk

• Documents (files) are the center of the world– The files are worthless without an

application to manipulate them

• It also conceals files that we are interested in


Files• Files need three pieces to identify

them• Directory – this includes the drive• File name• Extension• Windows Explorer or My Computer

will hide the extension by default• We need to expose it


Explorer Selecting Tools


The View Tab



CheckBox• The important check box is labeled:

Hide extensions for known file types• By default it is checked• This means that most of you will

send me one or more files that I do not need and not send me the ones needed

• Unchecking it is persistant

wxDev-C++• There are lots of files

– 9 in the main directory– More in the two subdirectories

• The easiest way is to zip the entire directory and email it


The Process• Have Dev-CPP show the directory• Select directory with Windows

Explorer• Right click and choose Send to

Compressed file• It will then compress it

– The file allows a rename when done

• Consider the following screens


Finding Directory


Zipping Directory (1)


Zipping Directory (2)


The zip file


Directories• The dialog may ask you where the

file is stored• Attach this to an email to me• This also works in the debugging

process


Addendum on Executables• The spam and malware filters are

getting better and better• Prior to 2012 they would always

remove a .EXE from email• Now they actually scan .ZIP files and

remove entire file if it contains one executable

• How do we get around this?


Removing executables• Prior to the zip operation delete the

executable or its directory• In Dev-CPP this is the Output

directory– Just delete the entire directory– The next time you run it will rebuild it

• This may be different between VCSU and WSC– WSC will pass through a stiffer spam

filter


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