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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: filefn.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxPathList and file functions
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9 /**
10 @class wxPathList
11
12 The path list is a convenient way of storing a number of directories, and
13 when presented with a filename without a directory, searching for an
14 existing file in those directories.
15
16 Be sure to look also at wxStandardPaths if you only want to search files in
17 some standard paths.
18
19 @library{wxbase}
20 @category{file}
21
22 @see wxArrayString, wxStandardPaths, wxFileName
23 */
24 class wxPathList : public wxArrayString
25 {
26 public:
27 /**
28 Standard constructor.
29 */
30 wxPathList();
31
32 /**
33 Constructs the object calling the Add() function.
34 */
35 wxPathList(const wxArrayString& arr);
36
37 /**
38 Adds the given directory to the path list, if the @a path is not already in the list.
39 If the path cannot be normalized for some reason, it returns @false.
40
41 The @a path is always considered to be a directory but no existence checks will be
42 done on it (because if it doesn't exist, it could be created later and thus result a
43 valid path when FindValidPath() is called).
44
45 @note if the given path is relative, it won't be made absolute before adding it
46 (this is why FindValidPath() may return relative paths).
47 */
48 bool Add(const wxString& path);
49
50 /**
51 Adds all elements of the given array as paths.
52 */
53 void Add(const wxArrayString& arr);
54
55 /**
56 Finds the value of the given environment variable, and adds all paths
57 to the path list.
58
59 Useful for finding files in the @c PATH variable, for example.
60 */
61 void AddEnvList(const wxString& env_variable);
62
63 /**
64 Given a full filename (with path), calls Add() with the path of the file.
65 */
66 bool EnsureFileAccessible(const wxString& filename);
67
68 /**
69 Like FindValidPath() but this function always returns an absolute path
70 (eventually prepending the current working directory to the value returned
71 wxPathList::FindValidPath()) or an empty string.
72 */
73 wxString FindAbsoluteValidPath(const wxString& file) const;
74
75 /**
76 Searches the given file in all paths stored in this class.
77
78 The first path which concatenated to the given string points to an existing
79 file (see wxFileExists()) is returned.
80
81 If the file wasn't found in any of the stored paths, an empty string is returned.
82
83 The given string must be a file name, eventually with a path prefix (if the path
84 prefix is absolute, only its name will be searched); i.e. it must not end with
85 a directory separator (see wxFileName::GetPathSeparator) otherwise an assertion
86 will fail.
87
88 The returned path may be relative to the current working directory.
89
90 Note in fact that wxPathList can be used to store both relative and absolute
91 paths so that if you added relative paths, then the current working directory
92 (see wxGetCwd() and wxSetWorkingDirectory()) may affect the value returned
93 by this function!
94 */
95 wxString FindValidPath(const wxString& file) const;
96 };
97
98
99
100 // ============================================================================
101 // Global functions/macros
102 // ============================================================================
103
104 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_file */
105 //@{
106
107 /**
108 A special return value of many wxWidgets classes to indicate that
109 an invalid offset was given.
110 */
111 const int wxInvalidOffset = -1;
112
113 /**
114 The type used to store and provide byte offsets or byte sizes for files or streams.
115
116 This type is usually just a synonym for @c off_t but can be defined as
117 @c wxLongLong_t if @c wxHAS_HUGE_FILES is defined but @c off_t is only 32
118 bits.
119 */
120 typedef off_t wxFileOffset;
121
122 /**
123 Under Unix this macro changes the current process umask to the given value,
124 unless it is equal to -1 in which case nothing is done, and restores it to
125 the original value on scope exit. It works by declaring a variable which
126 sets umask to @a mask in its constructor and restores it in its destructor.
127 Under other platforms this macro expands to nothing.
128
129 @header{wx/filefn.h}
130 */
131 #define wxCHANGE_UMASK(mask)
132
133 /**
134 This function returns the total number of bytes and number of free bytes on
135 the disk containing the directory @a path (it should exist). Both @a total
136 and @a free parameters may be @NULL if the corresponding information is not
137 needed.
138
139 @since 2.3.2
140
141 @note The generic Unix implementation depends on the system having the
142 @c statfs() or @c statvfs() function.
143
144 @return @true on success, @false if an error occurred (for example, the
145 directory doesn’t exist).
146
147 @header{wx/filefn.h}
148 */
149 bool wxGetDiskSpace(const wxString& path,
150 wxLongLong total = NULL,
151 wxLongLong free = NULL);
152
153 /**
154 Returns the Windows directory under Windows; other platforms return an
155 empty string.
156
157 @header{wx/filefn.h}
158 */
159 wxString wxGetOSDirectory();
160
161 /**
162 Parses the @a wildCard, returning the number of filters. Returns 0 if none
163 or if there's a problem.
164
165 The arrays will contain an equal number of items found before the error. On
166 platforms where native dialogs handle only one filter per entry, entries in
167 arrays are automatically adjusted. @a wildCard is in the form:
168
169 @code
170 "All files (*)|*|Image Files (*.jpeg *.png)|*.jpg;*.png"
171 @endcode
172
173 @header{wx/filefn.h}
174 */
175 int wxParseCommonDialogsFilter(const wxString& wildCard,
176 wxArrayString& descriptions,
177 wxArrayString& filters);
178
179 /**
180 Converts a DOS to a Unix filename by replacing backslashes with forward
181 slashes.
182
183 @deprecated
184 Construct a wxFileName with wxPATH_DOS and then use
185 wxFileName::GetFullPath(wxPATH_UNIX) instead.
186
187 @header{wx/filefn.h}
188 */
189 void wxDos2UnixFilename(wxChar* s);
190
191 /**
192 Converts a Unix to a DOS filename by replacing forward slashes with
193 backslashes.
194
195 @deprecated
196 Construct a wxFileName with wxPATH_UNIX and then use
197 wxFileName::GetFullPath(wxPATH_DOS) instead.
198
199 @header{wx/filefn.h}
200 */
201 void wxUnix2DosFilename(wxChar* s);
202
203 /**
204 Returns @true if @a dirname exists and is a directory.
205
206 @header{wx/filefn.h}
207 */
208 bool wxDirExists(const wxString& dirname);
209
210 /**
211 @deprecated
212 This function is obsolete, please use wxFileName::SplitPath() instead.
213
214 This function splits a full file name into components: the path (including
215 possible disk/drive specification under Windows), the base name, and the
216 extension. Any of the output parameters (@a path, @a name or @a ext) may be
217 @NULL if you are not interested in the value of a particular component.
218
219 wxSplitPath() will correctly handle filenames with both DOS and Unix path
220 separators under Windows, however it will not consider backslashes as path
221 separators under Unix (where backslash is a valid character in a filename).
222
223 On entry, @a fullname should be non-@NULL (it may be empty though).
224
225 On return, @a path contains the file path (without the trailing separator),
226 @a name contains the file name and @c ext contains the file extension
227 without leading dot. All three of them may be empty if the corresponding
228 component is. The old contents of the strings pointed to by these
229 parameters will be overwritten in any case (if the pointers are not @NULL).
230
231 @header{wx/filefn.h}
232 */
233 void wxSplitPath(const wxString& fullname,
234 wxString* path,
235 wxString* name,
236 wxString* ext);
237
238 /**
239 Returns time of last modification of given file.
240
241 The function returns <tt>(time_t)-1</tt> if an error occurred (e.g. file
242 not found).
243
244 @header{wx/filefn.h}
245 */
246 time_t wxFileModificationTime(const wxString& filename);
247
248 /**
249 Renames @a file1 to @e file2, returning @true if successful.
250
251 If @a file2 is a directory, @a file1 is moved into it (@a overwrite is
252 ignored in this case). Otherwise, if @a file2 is an existing file, it is
253 overwritten if @a overwrite is @true (default) and the function fails if @a
254 overwrite is @false.
255
256 @header{wx/filefn.h}
257 */
258 bool wxRenameFile(const wxString& file1,
259 const wxString& file2,
260 bool overwrite = true);
261
262 /**
263 Copies @a file1 to @e file2, returning @true if successful. If @a overwrite
264 parameter is @true (default), the destination file is overwritten if it
265 exists, but if @a overwrite is @false, the functions fails in this case.
266
267 This function supports resources forks under Mac OS.
268
269 @header{wx/filefn.h}
270 */
271 bool wxCopyFile(const wxString& file1,
272 const wxString& file2,
273 bool overwrite = true);
274
275 /**
276 Returns @true if the file exists and is a plain file.
277
278 @header{wx/filefn.h}
279 */
280 bool wxFileExists(const wxString& filename);
281
282 /**
283 Returns @true if the @a pattern matches the @e text; if @a dot_special is
284 @true, filenames beginning with a dot are not matched with wildcard
285 characters.
286
287 @see wxIsWild()
288
289 @header{wx/filefn.h}
290 */
291 bool wxMatchWild(const wxString& pattern,
292 const wxString& text,
293 bool dot_special);
294
295 /**
296 @deprecated This function is deprecated, use wxGetCwd() instead.
297
298 Copies the current working directory into the buffer if supplied, or copies
299 the working directory into new storage (which you must delete yourself) if
300 the buffer is @NULL.
301
302 @a sz is the size of the buffer if supplied.
303
304 @header{wx/filefn.h}
305 */
306 wxString wxGetWorkingDirectory(char* buf = NULL, int sz = 1000);
307
308 /**
309 Returns the directory part of the filename.
310
311 @header{wx/filefn.h}
312 */
313 wxString wxPathOnly(const wxString& path);
314
315 /**
316 Returns @true if the pattern contains wildcards.
317
318 @see wxMatchWild()
319
320 @header{wx/filefn.h}
321 */
322 bool wxIsWild(const wxString& pattern);
323
324 /**
325 Returns @true if the argument is an absolute filename, i.e.\ with a slash
326 or drive name at the beginning.
327
328 @header{wx/filefn.h}
329 */
330 bool wxIsAbsolutePath(const wxString& filename);
331
332 /**
333 Returns a string containing the current (or working) directory.
334
335 @header{wx/filefn.h}
336 */
337 wxString wxGetCwd();
338
339 /**
340 Sets the current working directory, returning @true if the operation
341 succeeded. Under MS Windows, the current drive is also changed if @a dir
342 contains a drive specification.
343
344 @header{wx/filefn.h}
345 */
346 bool wxSetWorkingDirectory(const wxString& dir);
347
348 /**
349 Concatenates @a file1 and @a file2 to @e file3, returning @true if
350 successful.
351
352 @header{wx/filefn.h}
353 */
354 bool wxConcatFiles(const wxString& file1,
355 const wxString& file2,
356 const wxString& file3);
357
358 /**
359 Removes @e file, returning @true if successful.
360
361 @header{wx/filefn.h}
362 */
363 bool wxRemoveFile(const wxString& file);
364
365 /**
366 File permission bit names.
367
368 We define these constants in wxWidgets because S_IREAD &c are not standard.
369 However, we do assume that the values correspond to the Unix umask bits.
370 */
371 enum wxPosixPermissions
372 {
373 /// Standard POSIX names for these permission flags with "wx" prefix.
374 //@{
375 wxS_IRUSR = 00400,
376 wxS_IWUSR = 00200,
377 wxS_IXUSR = 00100,
378
379 wxS_IRGRP = 00040,
380 wxS_IWGRP = 00020,
381 wxS_IXGRP = 00010,
382
383 wxS_IROTH = 00004,
384 wxS_IWOTH = 00002,
385 wxS_IXOTH = 00001,
386 //@}
387
388 /// Longer but more readable synonyms for the constants above.
389 //@{
390 wxPOSIX_USER_READ = wxS_IRUSR,
391 wxPOSIX_USER_WRITE = wxS_IWUSR,
392 wxPOSIX_USER_EXECUTE = wxS_IXUSR,
393
394 wxPOSIX_GROUP_READ = wxS_IRGRP,
395 wxPOSIX_GROUP_WRITE = wxS_IWGRP,
396 wxPOSIX_GROUP_EXECUTE = wxS_IXGRP,
397
398 wxPOSIX_OTHERS_READ = wxS_IROTH,
399 wxPOSIX_OTHERS_WRITE = wxS_IWOTH,
400 wxPOSIX_OTHERS_EXECUTE = wxS_IXOTH,
401 //@}
402
403 /// Default mode for the new files: allow reading/writing them to everybody but
404 /// the effective file mode will be set after ANDing this value with umask and
405 /// so won't include wxS_IW{GRP,OTH} for the default 022 umask value
406 wxS_DEFAULT = (wxPOSIX_USER_READ | wxPOSIX_USER_WRITE | \
407 wxPOSIX_GROUP_READ | wxPOSIX_GROUP_WRITE | \
408 wxPOSIX_OTHERS_READ | wxPOSIX_OTHERS_WRITE),
409
410 /// Default mode for the new directories (see wxFileName::Mkdir): allow
411 /// reading/writing/executing them to everybody, but just like wxS_DEFAULT
412 /// the effective directory mode will be set after ANDing this value with umask
413 wxS_DIR_DEFAULT = (wxPOSIX_USER_READ | wxPOSIX_USER_WRITE | wxPOSIX_USER_EXECUTE | \
414 wxPOSIX_GROUP_READ | wxPOSIX_GROUP_WRITE | wxPOSIX_GROUP_EXECUTE | \
415 wxPOSIX_OTHERS_READ | wxPOSIX_OTHERS_WRITE | wxPOSIX_OTHERS_EXECUTE)
416 };
417
418 /**
419 Makes the directory @a dir, returning @true if successful.
420
421 @a perm is the access mask for the directory for the systems on which it is
422 supported (Unix) and doesn't have any effect on the other ones.
423
424 @header{wx/filefn.h}
425 */
426 bool wxMkdir(const wxString& dir, int perm = wxS_DIR_DEFAULT);
427
428 /**
429 Removes the directory @a dir, returning @true if successful. Does not work
430 under VMS.
431
432 The @a flags parameter is reserved for future use.
433
434 @note There is also a wxRmDir() function which simply wraps the standard
435 POSIX @c rmdir() function and so return an integer error code instead
436 of a boolean value (but otherwise is currently identical to
437 wxRmdir()), don't confuse these two functions.
438
439 @header{wx/filefn.h}
440 */
441 bool wxRmdir(const wxString& dir, int flags = 0);
442
443 /**
444 Returns the next file that matches the path passed to wxFindFirstFile().
445
446 See wxFindFirstFile() for an example.
447
448 @header{wx/filefn.h}
449 */
450 wxString wxFindNextFile();
451
452 /**
453 This function does directory searching; returns the first file that matches
454 the path @a spec, or the empty string. Use wxFindNextFile() to get the next
455 matching file. Neither will report the current directory "." or the parent
456 directory "..".
457
458 @warning As of 2.5.2, these functions are not thread-safe! (they use static
459 variables). You probably want to use wxDir::GetFirst() or
460 wxDirTraverser instead.
461
462 @a spec may contain wildcards.
463
464 @a flags may be wxDIR for restricting the query to directories, wxFILE for
465 files or zero for either.
466
467 For example:
468
469 @code
470 wxString f = wxFindFirstFile("/home/project/*.*");
471 while ( !f.empty() )
472 {
473 ...
474 f = wxFindNextFile();
475 }
476 @endcode
477
478 @header{wx/filefn.h}
479 */
480 wxString wxFindFirstFile(const wxString& spec, int flags = 0);
481
482 /**
483 Parameter indicating how file offset should be interpreted.
484
485 This is used by wxFFile::Seek() and wxFile::Seek().
486
487 @header{wx/filefn.h}
488 */
489 enum wxSeekMode
490 {
491 wxFromStart, ///< Seek from the file beginning.
492 wxFromCurrent, ///< Seek from the current position.
493 wxFromEnd ///< Seek from end of the file.
494 };
495
496 /**
497 File kind enumerations returned from wxGetFileKind().
498
499 Also used by wxFFile::GetKind() and wxFile::GetKind().
500
501 @header{wx/filefn.h}
502 */
503 enum wxFileKind
504 {
505 wxFILE_KIND_UNKNOWN, ///< Unknown file kind, or unable to determine
506 wxFILE_KIND_DISK, ///< A file supporting seeking to arbitrary offsets
507 wxFILE_KIND_TERMINAL, ///< A tty
508 wxFILE_KIND_PIPE ///< A pipe
509 };
510
511 //@}
512
513 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_file */
514 //@{
515 /**
516 Returns the type of an open file. Possible return values are enumerations
517 of ::wxFileKind.
518
519 @header{wx/filefn.h}
520 */
521 wxFileKind wxGetFileKind(int fd);
522 wxFileKind wxGetFileKind(FILE* fp);
523 //@}
524
525 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_file */
526 //@{
527 /**
528 @deprecated
529 This function is obsolete, please use wxFileName::SplitPath() instead.
530
531 Returns the filename for a full path. The second form returns a pointer to
532 temporary storage that should not be deallocated.
533
534 @header{wx/filefn.h}
535 */
536 wxString wxFileNameFromPath(const wxString& path);
537 char* wxFileNameFromPath(char* path);
538 //@}
539
540 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_file */
541 //@{
542 /**
543 @deprecated
544 This function is obsolete, please use wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() instead.
545
546 @header{wx/filefn.h}
547 */
548 char* wxGetTempFileName(const wxString& prefix, char* buf = NULL);
549 bool wxGetTempFileName(const wxString& prefix, wxString& buf);
550 //@}
551