<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"/> <title>mail::ACCOUNT::getParentFolder</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="manpage.css" type="text/css"/> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Cone: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer"/> <link rel="up" href="synchronous.html" title="mail::ACCOUNT Synchronous API reference"/> <link rel="prev" href="account-getmyrights.html" title="mail::ACCOUNT::getMyRights"/> <link rel="next" href="account-getrights.html" title="mail::ACCOUNT::getRights"/> <link xmlns="" rel="icon" href="icon.gif" type="image/gif"/> <meta xmlns="" name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/> <!-- Copyright 2002 - 2007 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. --> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="1"> mail::ACCOUNT::getParentFolder</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="account-getmyrights.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <span class="structname">mail::ACCOUNT</span> Synchronous API reference</th> <td width="20%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="account-getrights.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr/> </div> <div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <a id="account-getparentfolder" shape="rect" name="account-getparentfolder"> </a> <div class="titlepage"/> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2>Name</h2> <p>mail::ACCOUNT::getParentFolder — Find parent folder</p> </div> <div class="refsynopsisdiv"> <h2>Synopsis</h2> <div class="literallayout"> <p><br clear="none"/> <br clear="none"/> <br clear="none"/> <br clear="none"/> #include <libmail/sync.H><br clear="none"/> <br clear="none"/> mail::ACCOUNT *mail;<br clear="none"/> const mail::folder *folder;<br clear="none"/> mail::ACCOUNT::FolderList folderList;<br clear="none"/></p> </div> <div class="funcsynopsis"> <table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code class="funcdef">bool ok=mail-><b class="fsfunc">getParentFolder</b>(</code></td> <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> </td> <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><var class="pdparam">folder</var>,</td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> </td> <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> </td> <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><var class="pdparam">folderList</var><code>)</code>;</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="literallayout"> <p><br clear="none"/> std::string errmsg=mail->getErrmsg();<br clear="none"/></p> </div> <div class="literallayout"> <p><br clear="none"/> size_t nFolders=folderList::size();<br clear="none"/> const mail::folder *folder=folderList[n];<br clear="none"/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <a id="id565665" shape="rect" name="id565665"> </a> <h2>USAGE</h2> <p>A mail account contains folders that are arranged in a tree-like hierarchy. <code class="function">mail::ACCOUNT::getParentFolder</code> finds a <em class="parameter"><code>folder</code></em>'s parent folder (<em class="parameter"><code>folder</code></em> is obtained from a previous <code class="function">mail::ACCOUNT::getSubFolders</code> or a <a class="link" href="account-gettoplevelfolders.html" title="mail::ACCOUNT::getTopLevelFolders" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::ACCOUNT::getTopLevelFolders</span>(3x)</span></a> call).</p> </div> <div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <a id="id565714" shape="rect" name="id565714"> </a> <h2>RETURN CODES AND CALLBACKS</h2> <p>This method returns <code class="literal">true</code> if it succeeds, or <code class="literal">false</code> if it fails. If the method fails, use <em class="structfield"><code>mail::ACCOUNT::getErrmsg()</code></em> to read a brief description of the error.</p> <p>If successful, <em class="parameter"><code>folderList</code></em> will contain a single pointer to a <span class="structname">mail::folder</span> object that will refer to <em class="parameter"><code>folder</code></em>'s parent folder.</p> <p>See <a class="link" href="account-gettoplevelfolders.html" title="mail::ACCOUNT::getTopLevelFolders" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::ACCOUNT::getTopLevelFolders</span>(3x)</span></a> for additional notes and instructions on handling folder lists.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <a id="id565787" shape="rect" name="id565787"> </a> <h2>SEE ALSO</h2> <p><a class="link" href="account-getsubfolders.html" title="mail::ACCOUNT::getSubFolders" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::ACCOUNT::getSubFolders</span>(3x)</span></a>, <a class="link" href="account-gettoplevelfolders.html" title="mail::ACCOUNT::getTopLevelFolders" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::ACCOUNT::getTopLevelFolders</span>(3x)</span></a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr/> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="account-getmyrights.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="u" href="synchronous.html" shape="rect">Up</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="account-getrights.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">mail::ACCOUNT::getMyRights </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html" shape="rect">Home</a> | <a accesskey="t" href="bk01-toc.html" shape="rect">ToC</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> mail::ACCOUNT::getRights</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>