added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (patch 1214360)
[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / stdpaths.h
1 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: wx/stdpaths.h
3 // Purpose: declaration of wxStandardPaths class
4 // Author: Vadim Zeitlin
5 // Modified by:
6 // Created: 2004-10-17
7 // RCS-ID: $Id$
8 // Copyright: (c) 2004 Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwindows.org>
9 // Licence: wxWindows licence
10 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11
12 #ifndef _WX_STDPATHS_H_
13 #define _WX_STDPATHS_H_
14
15 #include "wx/defs.h"
16
17 #if wxUSE_STDPATHS
18
19 #include "wx/string.h"
20 #include "wx/filefn.h"
21
22 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
23 // wxStandardPaths returns the standard locations in the file system
24 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
25
26 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxStandardPathsBase
27 {
28 public:
29 // possible resources categorires
30 enum ResourceCat
31 {
32 // no special category
33 ResourceCat_None,
34
35 // message catalog resources
36 ResourceCat_Messages,
37
38 // end of enum marker
39 ResourceCat_Max
40 };
41
42
43 // return the global standard paths object
44 static wxStandardPathsBase& Get();
45
46
47 // return the directory with system config files:
48 // /etc under Unix, c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
49 // under Windows, /Library/Preferences for Mac
50 virtual wxString GetConfigDir() const = 0;
51
52 // return the directory for the user config files:
53 // $HOME under Unix, c:\Documents and Settings\username under Windows,
54 // ~/Library/Preferences under Mac
55 //
56 // only use this if you have a single file to put there, otherwise
57 // GetUserDataDir() is more appropriate
58 virtual wxString GetUserConfigDir() const = 0;
59
60 // return the location of the applications global, i.e. not user-specific,
61 // data files
62 //
63 // prefix/share/appname under Unix, c:\Program Files\appname under Windows,
64 // appname.app/Contents/SharedSupport app bundle directory under Mac
65 virtual wxString GetDataDir() const = 0;
66
67 // return the location for application data files which are host-specific
68 //
69 // same as GetDataDir() except under Unix where it is /etc/appname
70 virtual wxString GetLocalDataDir() const;
71
72 // return the directory for the user-dependent application data files
73 //
74 // $HOME/.appname under Unix,
75 // c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\appname under Windows
76 // and ~/Library/Application Support/appname under Mac
77 virtual wxString GetUserDataDir() const = 0;
78
79 // return the directory for user data files which shouldn't be shared with
80 // the other machines
81 //
82 // same as GetUserDataDir() for all platforms except Windows where it is
83 // the "Local Settings\Application Data\appname" directory
84 virtual wxString GetUserLocalDataDir() const;
85
86 // return the directory where the loadable modules (plugins) live
87 //
88 // prefix/lib/appname under Unix, program directory under Windows and
89 // Contents/Plugins app bundle subdirectory under Mac
90 virtual wxString GetPluginsDir() const = 0;
91
92 // get resources directory: resources are auxiliary files used by the
93 // application and include things like image and sound files
94 //
95 // same as GetDataDir() for all platforms except Mac where it returns
96 // Contents/Resources subdirectory of the app bundle
97 virtual wxString GetResourcesDir() const { return GetDataDir(); }
98
99 // get localized resources directory containing the resource files of the
100 // specified category for the given language
101 //
102 // in general this is just GetResourcesDir()/lang under Windows and Unix
103 // and GetResourcesDir()/lang.lproj under Mac but is something quite
104 // different under Unix for message catalog category (namely the standard
105 // prefix/share/locale/lang/LC_MESSAGES)
106 virtual wxString
107 GetLocalizedResourcesDir(const wxChar *lang,
108 ResourceCat WXUNUSED(category)
109 = ResourceCat_None) const
110 {
111 return GetResourcesDir() + wxFILE_SEP_PATH + lang;
112 }
113
114 // return the "Documents" directory for the current user
115 //
116 // C:\Documents and Settings\username\Documents under Windows,
117 // $HOME under Unix and ~/Documents under Mac
118 virtual wxString GetDocumentsDir() const;
119
120
121 // virtual dtor for the base class
122 virtual ~wxStandardPathsBase();
123
124 protected:
125 // append "/appname" suffix if the app name is set (doesn't append the
126 // slash if dir already ends with a slash or dot)
127 static wxString AppendAppName(const wxString& dir);
128 };
129
130 #if defined(__WXMSW__)
131 #include "wx/msw/stdpaths.h"
132 // We want CoreFoundation paths on both CarbonLib and Darwin (for all ports)
133 #elif defined(__WXMAC__) || defined(__DARWIN__)
134 #include "wx/mac/corefoundation/stdpaths.h"
135 #elif defined(__OS2__)
136 #include "wx/os2/stdpaths.h"
137 #elif defined(__UNIX__)
138 #include "wx/unix/stdpaths.h"
139 #elif defined(__PALMOS__)
140 #include "wx/palmos/stdpaths.h"
141 #else
142
143 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
144 // Minimal generic implementation
145 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
146
147 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxStandardPaths : public wxStandardPathsBase
148 {
149 public:
150 void SetInstallPrefix(const wxString& prefix) { m_prefix = prefix; }
151 wxString GetInstallPrefix() const { return m_prefix; }
152 virtual wxString GetConfigDir() const { return m_prefix; }
153 virtual wxString GetUserConfigDir() const { return m_prefix; }
154 virtual wxString GetDataDir() const { return m_prefix; }
155 virtual wxString GetLocalDataDir() const { return m_prefix; }
156 virtual wxString GetUserDataDir() const { return m_prefix; }
157 virtual wxString GetPluginsDir() const { return m_prefix; }
158 virtual wxString GetDocumentsDir() const { return m_prefix; }
159
160 private:
161 wxString m_prefix;
162 };
163
164 #endif
165
166 #endif // wxUSE_STDPATHS
167
168 #endif // _WX_STDPATHS_H_
169