FDK 9 will not open file

Report · Feb 17, 2010

I have a c api I created to create a book with a template it copies FM files from a templete folder and renames the book and documents form a text file with the name it will be using. The problem is the api will not open the text file, I keep getting an error saying it cannot open the file. This is working in FDK 8. I have look at the FDK 9 documents to see if anything has changed with the F_ChannelOpen and it looks the same. The source code compiles fine with no errors using the FDK 9 libs and includes. I am using MS Visual c++ 6.0 to compile the code.

What am I missing?

     AllocStrings();
    F_ApiBailOut();
    F_FdeInit();

ChannelT chan2;

FilePathT *path2 = F_PathNameToFilePath((StringT)"C:\\Tools\\config\\CAconfig.xml", NULL, FDefaultPath);

if ((chan2 = F_ChannelOpen(path2,"r")) == NULL)

    {

        F_ChannelClose(chan2);
        F_FilePathFree(path2);
        return 0; // file does not exist
    }

    F_ChannelClose(chan2);
    F_FilePathFree(path2);
    return 1; // file does exist
}

Report · Jul 30, 2010

This may be far too late to help you, but perhaps someone else will find value. I ran into problems with F_ChannelOpen() with FDK9 and opening a text file as well, but found a solution that works for me. (I also posted the following on the Yahoo FrameDev group yesterday.)

OK, to answer my own question...

Turns out I had to set up a few things for Unicode support. (This is an
asynchronous client, by the way). I was already setting the working directory
to $FMHOME for FM9 in order to avoid having to drag the ICU DLLs around with my
executable.

#include "fencode.h" // for FDK8/9 unicode support

:

//for FDK8/9, set ICU unicode data dir to $FMHOME\fminit\icu_data...

// StringT icu_dir previously defined elsewhere
F_SetICUDataDir(icu_dir);
F_ApiEnableUnicode(False);
errstat=F_FdeInit();

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