I'm a C++ noob, and haven't done anything where I need to interact with the file structure yet. My environment is Mac OSX and Ubuntu Linux. I have some experience with Java, Bash scripting, and AppleScript.

I've found plenty of tutorials about how to read/write a single file, but I can't find anything on how to deal with a folder and it's sub-folders.

I want to take a folder (~/MyClipart) and create a recursive tree structure of it's contents.

The top level node would be ~/MyClipart. Each node would represent either a folder or a file. Of course folder-nodes could have child nodes.

I can handle making the tree, but I don't know how to get the file system info to populate the tree.

Thanks for the help,

Michael

Use the opendir() set of functions, then you can check each file with stat() to see if it's a directory to recurse into.

here is a good link, that should get you started in the right direction
http://www.codecomments.com/message222411.html

Thank you, that's just what I was looking for.

Michael