1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 // Purpose: interface of wxFileName
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11 The various values for the path format: this mainly affects the path
12 separator but also whether or not the path has the drive part
15 See wxFileName for more info.
19 wxPATH_NATIVE
= 0, //!< the path format for the current platform.
21 wxPATH_BEOS
= wxPATH_UNIX
,
24 wxPATH_WIN
= wxPATH_DOS
,
25 wxPATH_OS2
= wxPATH_DOS
,
28 wxPATH_MAX
//!< Not a valid value for specifying path format
32 Different conventions for human readable sizes.
34 @see wxFileName::GetHumanReadableSize().
41 wxSIZE_CONV_TRADITIONAL
,
43 /// 1024 bytes = 1KiB.
52 The kind of normalization to do with the file name: these values can be
53 or'd together to perform several operations at once.
54 See wxFileName::Normalize() for more info.
58 //! Replace environment variables with their values.
59 //! wxFileName understands both Unix and Windows (but only under Windows) environment
60 //! variables expansion: i.e. @c "$var", @c "$(var)" and @c "${var}" are always understood
61 //! and in addition under Windows @c "%var%" is also.
62 wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS
= 0x0001,
64 wxPATH_NORM_DOTS
= 0x0002, //!< Squeeze all @c ".." and @c ".".
65 wxPATH_NORM_TILDE
= 0x0004, //!< Replace @c "~" and @c "~user" (Unix only).
66 wxPATH_NORM_CASE
= 0x0008, //!< If the platform is case insensitive, make lowercase the path.
67 wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE
= 0x0010, //!< Make the path absolute.
68 wxPATH_NORM_LONG
= 0x0020, //!< Expand the path to the "long" form (Windows only).
69 wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT
= 0x0040, //!< Resolve the shortcut, if it is a shortcut (Windows only).
71 //! A value indicating all normalization flags except for @c wxPATH_NORM_CASE.
72 wxPATH_NORM_ALL
= 0x00ff & ~wxPATH_NORM_CASE
76 Flags for wxFileName::Rmdir().
80 /// Delete the specified directory and its subdirectories if they are empty.
81 wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL
= 1,
84 Delete the specified directory and all the files and subdirectories in it
87 This flag is obviously @b dangerous and should be used with care and
88 after asking the user for confirmation.
90 wxPATH_RMDIR_RECURSIVE
= 2
94 The return value of wxFileName::GetSize() in case of error.
96 wxULongLong wxInvalidSize
;
102 wxFileName encapsulates a file name.
104 This class serves two purposes: first, it provides the functions to split the
105 file names into components and to recombine these components in the full file
106 name which can then be passed to the OS file functions
107 (and @ref group_funcmacro_file "wxWidgets functions" wrapping them).
108 Second, it includes the functions for working with the files itself. Note that
109 to change the file data you should use wxFile class instead.
110 wxFileName provides functions for working with the file attributes.
112 When working with directory names (i.e. without filename and extension)
113 make sure not to misuse the file name part of this class with the last
114 directory. Instead initialize the wxFileName instance like this:
117 wxFileName dirname( "C:\mydir", "" );
118 MyMethod( dirname.GetPath() );
121 The same can be done using the static method wxFileName::DirName():
124 wxFileName dirname = wxFileName::DirName( "C:\mydir" );
125 MyMethod( dirname.GetPath() );
128 Accordingly, methods dealing with directories or directory names like
129 wxFileName::IsDirReadable() use wxFileName::GetPath() whereas methods dealing
130 with file names like wxFileName::IsFileReadable() use wxFileName::GetFullPath().
132 If it is not known wether a string contains a directory name or a complete
133 file name (such as when interpreting user input) you need to use the static
134 function wxFileName::DirExists() (or its identical variants wxDir::Exists() and
135 wxDirExists()) and construct the wxFileName instance accordingly.
136 This will only work if the directory actually exists, of course:
140 // get input from user
143 if (wxDirExists(user_input))
144 fname.AssignDir( user_input );
146 fname.Assign( user_input );
149 Please note that many wxFileName methods accept the path format argument
150 which is by @c wxPATH_NATIVE by default meaning to use the path format
151 native for the current platform.
152 The path format affects the operation of wxFileName functions in several ways:
153 first and foremost, it defines the path separator character to use, but it
154 also affects other things such as whether the path has the drive part or not.
155 See wxPathFormat for more info.
158 @section filename_format File name format
160 wxFileName currently supports the file names in the Unix, DOS/Windows,
161 Mac OS and VMS formats. Although these formats are quite different,
162 wxFileName tries to treat them all in the same generic way.
163 It supposes that all file names consist of the following parts: the volume
164 (also known as drive under Windows or device under VMS), the path which is
165 a sequence of directory names separated by the path separators and the full
166 filename itself which, in turn, is composed from the base file name and the
167 extension. All of the individual components of the file name may be empty
168 and, for example, the volume name is always empty under Unix, but if they
169 are all empty simultaneously, the filename object is considered to be in an
170 invalid state and wxFileName::IsOk() returns false for it.
172 File names can be case-sensitive or not, the function wxFileName::IsCaseSensitive()
173 allows to determine this. The rules for determining whether the file name is
174 absolute or relative also depend on the file name format and the only portable way
175 to answer this question is to use wxFileName::IsAbsolute() or wxFileName::IsRelative()
178 Note that on Windows,"X:" refers to the current working directory on drive X.
179 Therefore, a wxFileName instance constructed from for example "X:dir/file.ext"
180 treats the portion beyond drive separator as being relative to that directory.
181 To ensure that the filename is absolute, you may use wxFileName::MakeAbsolute().
182 There is also an inverse function wxFileName::MakeRelativeTo() which undoes
183 what wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_DOTS) does.
184 Other functions returning information about the file format provided by this
185 class are wxFileName::GetVolumeSeparator(), wxFileName::IsPathSeparator().
188 @section filename_construction File name construction
190 You can initialize a wxFileName instance using one of the following functions:
192 @li wxFileName::wxFileName()
193 @li wxFileName::Assign()
194 @li wxFileName::AssignCwd()
195 @li wxFileName::AssignDir()
196 @li wxFileName::AssignHomeDir()
197 @li wxFileName::AssignTempFileName()
198 @li wxFileName::DirName()
199 @li wxFileName::FileName()
200 @li wxFileName::operator=()
203 @section filename_tests File name tests
205 Before doing other tests, you should use wxFileName::IsOk() to verify that
206 the filename is well defined. If it is, FileExists() can be used to test whether
207 a file with such name exists and wxFileName::DirExists() can be used to test
208 for directory existence.
209 File names should be compared using the wxFileName::SameAs() method or
210 wxFileName::operator==(). For testing basic access modes, you can use:
212 @li wxFileName::IsDirWritable()
213 @li wxFileName::IsDirReadable()
214 @li wxFileName::IsFileWritable()
215 @li wxFileName::IsFileReadable()
216 @li wxFileName::IsFileExecutable()
219 @section filename_components File name components
221 These functions allow to examine and modify the individual directories
224 @li wxFileName::AppendDir()
225 @li wxFileName::InsertDir()
226 @li wxFileName::GetDirCount()
227 @li wxFileName::PrependDir()
228 @li wxFileName::RemoveDir()
229 @li wxFileName::RemoveLastDir()
231 To change the components of the file name individually you can use the
234 @li wxFileName::GetExt()
235 @li wxFileName::GetName()
236 @li wxFileName::GetVolume()
237 @li wxFileName::HasExt()
238 @li wxFileName::HasName()
239 @li wxFileName::HasVolume()
240 @li wxFileName::SetExt()
241 @li wxFileName::ClearExt()
242 @li wxFileName::SetEmptyExt()
243 @li wxFileName::SetName()
244 @li wxFileName::SetVolume()
246 You can initialize a wxFileName instance using one of the following functions:
249 @section filename_operations File name operations
251 These methods allow to work with the file creation, access and modification
252 times. Note that not all filesystems under all platforms implement these times
253 in the same way. For example, the access time under Windows has a resolution of
254 one day (so it is really the access date and not time). The access time may be
255 updated when the file is executed or not depending on the platform.
257 @li wxFileName::GetModificationTime()
258 @li wxFileName::GetTimes()
259 @li wxFileName::SetTimes()
260 @li wxFileName::Touch()
262 Other file system operations functions are:
264 @li wxFileName::Mkdir()
265 @li wxFileName::Rmdir()
282 wxFileName(const wxFileName
& filename
);
285 Constructor taking a full filename.
287 If it terminates with a '/', a directory path is constructed
288 (the name will be empty), otherwise a file name and extension
289 are extracted from it.
291 wxFileName(const wxString
& fullpath
,
292 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
295 Constructor a directory name and file name.
297 wxFileName(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
298 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
301 Constructor from a directory name, base file name and extension.
303 wxFileName(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
305 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
308 Constructor from a volume name, a directory name, base file name and extension.
310 wxFileName(const wxString
& volume
, const wxString
& path
,
311 const wxString
& name
,
313 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
316 Appends a directory component to the path. This component should contain a
317 single directory name level, i.e. not contain any path or volume separators nor
318 should it be empty, otherwise the function does nothing (and generates an
319 assert failure in debug build).
321 void AppendDir(const wxString
& dir
);
324 Creates the file name from another filename object.
326 void Assign(const wxFileName
& filepath
);
329 Creates the file name from a full file name with a path.
331 void Assign(const wxString
& fullpath
,
332 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
335 Creates the file name from volumne, path, name and extension.
337 void Assign(const wxString
& volume
, const wxString
& path
,
338 const wxString
& name
,
341 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
344 Creates the file name from volumne, path, name and extension.
346 void Assign(const wxString
& volume
, const wxString
& path
,
347 const wxString
& name
,
349 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
352 Creates the file name from file path and file name.
354 void Assign(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
355 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
358 Creates the file name from path, name and extension.
360 void Assign(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
362 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
365 Makes this object refer to the current working directory on the specified
366 volume (or current volume if @a volume is empty).
370 void AssignCwd(const wxString
& volume
= wxEmptyString
);
373 Sets this file name object to the given directory name.
374 The name and extension will be empty.
376 void AssignDir(const wxString
& dir
,
377 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
380 Sets this file name object to the home directory.
382 void AssignHomeDir();
385 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary file
386 and sets this object to the name of the file.
388 If a temporary file couldn't be created, the object is put into
389 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
391 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
);
394 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary
395 file name and open @a fileTemp with it.
397 If the file couldn't be opened, the object is put into
398 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
400 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
, wxFile
* fileTemp
);
403 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary
404 file name and open @a fileTemp with it.
406 If the file couldn't be opened, the object is put into
407 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
409 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
, wxFFile
* fileTemp
);
412 Reset all components to default, uninitialized state.
417 Removes the extension from the file name resulting in a
418 file name with no trailing dot.
420 @see SetExt(), SetEmptyExt()
426 Returns a temporary file name starting with the given @e prefix.
427 If the @a prefix is an absolute path, the temporary file is created in this
428 directory, otherwise it is created in the default system directory for the
429 temporary files or in the current directory.
431 If the function succeeds, the temporary file is actually created.
432 If @a fileTemp is not @NULL, this file will be opened using the name of
433 the temporary file. When possible, this is done in an atomic way ensuring that
434 no race condition occurs between the temporary file name generation and opening
435 it which could often lead to security compromise on the multiuser systems.
436 If @a fileTemp is @NULL, the file is only created, but not opened.
437 Under Unix, the temporary file will have read and write permissions for the
438 owner only to minimize the security problems.
441 Prefix to use for the temporary file name construction
443 The file to open or @NULL to just get the name
445 @return The full temporary file name or an empty string on error.
447 static wxString
CreateTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
,
448 wxFile
* fileTemp
= NULL
);
449 static wxString
CreateTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
,
450 wxFFile
* fileTemp
= NULL
);
454 Returns @true if the directory with this name exists.
456 bool DirExists() const;
459 Returns @true if the directory with this name exists.
461 static bool DirExists(const wxString
& dir
);
464 Returns the object corresponding to the directory with the given name.
465 The @a dir parameter may have trailing path separator or not.
467 static wxFileName
DirName(const wxString
& dir
,
468 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
471 Returns @true if the file with this name exists.
475 bool FileExists() const;
478 Returns @true if the file with this name exists.
482 static bool FileExists(const wxString
& file
);
485 Returns the file name object corresponding to the given @e file. This
486 function exists mainly for symmetry with DirName().
488 static wxFileName
FileName(const wxString
& file
,
489 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
492 Retrieves the value of the current working directory on the specified volume.
493 If the volume is empty, the program's current working directory is returned for
496 @return The string containing the current working directory or an empty
501 static wxString
GetCwd(const wxString
& volume
= wxEmptyString
);
504 Returns the number of directories in the file name.
506 size_t GetDirCount() const;
509 Returns the directories in string array form.
511 const wxArrayString
& GetDirs() const;
514 Returns the file name extension.
516 wxString
GetExt() const;
519 Returns the characters that can't be used in filenames and directory names
520 for the specified format.
522 static wxString
GetForbiddenChars(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
525 Returns the canonical path format for this platform.
527 static wxPathFormat
GetFormat(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
530 Returns the full name (including extension but excluding directories).
532 wxString
GetFullName() const;
535 Returns the full path with name and extension.
537 wxString
GetFullPath(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
540 Returns the home directory.
542 static wxString
GetHomeDir();
546 Returns the representation of the file size in a human-readable form.
548 In the first version, the size of this file is used. In the second one,
549 the specified size @a bytes is used.
551 If the file size could not be retrieved or @a bytes is ::wxInvalidSize
552 or zero, the @c failmsg string is returned.
554 Otherwise the returned string is a floating-point number with @c
555 precision decimal digits followed by the abbreviation of the unit used.
556 By default the traditional, although incorrect, convention of using SI
557 units for multiples of 1024 is used, i.e. returned string will use
558 suffixes of B, KB, MB, GB, TB for bytes, kilobytes, megabytes,
559 gigabytes and terabytes respectively. With the IEC convention the names
560 of the units are changed to B, KiB, MiB, GiB and TiB fofr bytes,
561 kibibytes, mebibyes, gibibytes and tebibytes. Finally, with SI
562 convention the same B, KB, MB, GB and TB suffixes are used but in their
563 correct SI meaning, i.e. as multiples of 1000 and not 1024.
565 Support for the different size conventions is new in wxWidgets 2.9.1,
566 in previous versions only the traditional convention was implemented.
569 GetHumanReadableSize(const wxString
& failmsg
= _("Not available"),
571 wxSizeConvention conv
= wxSIZE_CONV_TRADITIONAL
) const;
574 GetHumanReadableSize(const wxULongLong
& bytes
,
575 const wxString
& nullsize
= _("Not available"),
577 wxSizeConvention conv
= wxSIZE_CONV_TRADITIONAL
);
581 Return the long form of the path (returns identity on non-Windows platforms).
583 wxString
GetLongPath() const;
586 Returns the last time the file was last modified.
588 wxDateTime
GetModificationTime() const;
591 Returns the name part of the filename (without extension).
595 wxString
GetName() const;
598 Returns the path part of the filename (without the name or extension).
600 The possible flags values are:
602 - @b wxPATH_GET_VOLUME:
603 Return the path with the volume (does nothing for the filename formats
604 without volumes), otherwise the path without volume part is returned.
606 - @b wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR:
607 Return the path with the trailing separator, if this flag is not given
608 there will be no separator at the end of the path.
610 - @b wxPATH_NO_SEPARATOR:
611 Don't include the trailing separator in the returned string. This is
612 the default (the value of this flag is 0) and exists only for symmetry
613 with wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR.
615 wxString
GetPath(int flags
= wxPATH_GET_VOLUME
,
616 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
619 Returns the usually used path separator for this format.
620 For all formats but @c wxPATH_DOS there is only one path separator anyhow,
621 but for DOS there are two of them and the native one, i.e. the backslash
622 is returned by this method.
624 @see GetPathSeparators()
626 static wxUniChar
GetPathSeparator(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
629 Returns the string containing all the path separators for this format.
630 For all formats but @c wxPATH_DOS this string contains only one character
631 but for DOS and Windows both @c '/' and @c '\' may be used as separators.
633 @see GetPathSeparator()
635 static wxString
GetPathSeparators(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
638 Returns the string of characters which may terminate the path part.
639 This is the same as GetPathSeparators() except for VMS
640 path format where ] is used at the end of the path part.
642 static wxString
GetPathTerminators(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
645 Returns the path with the trailing separator, useful for appending the name
648 This is the same as calling
650 GetPath(wxPATH_GET_VOLUME | wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR, format)
653 wxString
GetPathWithSep(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
656 Return the short form of the path (returns identity on non-Windows platforms).
658 wxString
GetShortPath() const;
661 Returns the size of the file If the file does not exist or its size could
662 not be read (because e.g. the file is locked by another process) the returned
663 value is ::wxInvalidSize.
665 wxULongLong
GetSize() const;
668 Returns the size of the file If the file does not exist or its size could
669 not be read (because e.g. the file is locked by another process) the returned
670 value is ::wxInvalidSize.
672 static wxULongLong
GetSize(const wxString
& filename
);
675 Returns the directory used for temporary files.
677 static wxString
GetTempDir();
680 Returns the last access, last modification and creation times.
681 The last access time is updated whenever the file is read or written
682 (or executed in the case of Windows), last modification time is only
683 changed when the file is written to.
684 Finally, the creation time is indeed the time when the file was created
685 under Windows and the inode change time under Unix (as it is impossible to
686 retrieve the real file creation time there anyhow) which can also be changed
687 by many operations after the file creation.
689 If no filename or extension is specified in this instance of wxFileName
690 (and therefore IsDir() returns @true) then this function will return the
691 directory times of the path specified by GetPath(), otherwise the file
692 times of the file specified by GetFullPath().
693 Any of the pointers may be @NULL if the corresponding time is not needed.
695 @return @true on success, @false if we failed to retrieve the times.
697 bool GetTimes(wxDateTime
* dtAccess
, wxDateTime
* dtMod
,
698 wxDateTime
* dtCreate
) const;
701 Returns the string containing the volume for this file name, empty if it
702 doesn't have one or if the file system doesn't support volumes at all
705 wxString
GetVolume() const;
708 Returns the string separating the volume from the path for this format.
710 static wxString
GetVolumeSeparator(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
713 This function builds a volume path string, for example "C:\\".
715 Implemented for the platforms which use drive letters, i.e. DOS, MSW
721 The drive letter, 'A' through 'Z' or 'a' through 'z'.
724 @c wxPATH_NO_SEPARATOR or @c wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR to omit or include
725 the trailing path separator, the default is to include it.
727 @return Volume path string.
729 static wxString
GetVolumeString(char drive
, int flags
= wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR
);
732 Returns @true if an extension is present.
737 Returns @true if a name is present.
739 bool HasName() const;
742 Returns @true if a volume specifier is present.
744 bool HasVolume() const;
747 Inserts a directory component before the zero-based position in the directory
748 list. Please see AppendDir() for important notes.
750 void InsertDir(size_t before
, const wxString
& dir
);
753 Returns @true if this filename is absolute.
755 bool IsAbsolute(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
758 Returns @true if the file names of this type are case-sensitive.
760 static bool IsCaseSensitive(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
763 Returns @true if this object represents a directory, @false otherwise
764 (i.e. if it is a file).
766 Note that this method doesn't test whether the directory or file really
767 exists, you should use DirExists() or FileExists() for this.
772 Returns @true if the directory component of this instance is an existing
773 directory and this process has read permissions on it. Read permissions
774 on a directory mean that you can list the directory contents but it
775 doesn't imply that you have read permissions on the files contained.
777 bool IsDirReadable() const;
780 Returns @true if the given @e dir is an existing directory and this process
781 has read permissions on it. Read permissions on a directory mean that you
782 can list the directory contents but it doesn't imply that you have read
783 permissions on the files contained.
785 static bool IsDirReadable(const wxString
& dir
);
788 Returns @true if the directory component of this instance
789 is an existing directory and this process has write permissions on it.
790 Write permissions on a directory mean that you can create new files in the
793 bool IsDirWritable() const;
796 Returns @true if the given @a dir is an existing directory and this
797 process has write permissions on it.
798 Write permissions on a directory mean that you can create new files in the
801 static bool IsDirWritable(const wxString
& dir
);
804 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has execute
807 bool IsFileExecutable() const;
810 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has execute
813 static bool IsFileExecutable(const wxString
& file
);
816 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has read
819 bool IsFileReadable() const;
822 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has read
825 static bool IsFileReadable(const wxString
& file
);
828 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has write
831 bool IsFileWritable() const;
834 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has write
837 static bool IsFileWritable(const wxString
& file
);
840 Returns @true if the filename is valid, @false if it is not initialized yet.
841 The assignment functions and Clear() may reset the object to the uninitialized,
842 invalid state (the former only do it on failure).
847 Returns @true if the char is a path separator for this format.
849 static bool IsPathSeparator(wxChar ch
,
850 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
853 Returns @true if the volume part of the path is a unique volume name.
855 This function will always return @false if the path format is not
858 Unique volume names are Windows volume identifiers which remain the same
859 regardless of where the volume is actually mounted. Example of a path
860 using a volume name could be
862 \\?\Volume{8089d7d7-d0ac-11db-9dd0-806d6172696f}\Program Files\setup.exe
867 static bool IsMSWUniqueVolumeNamePath(const wxString
& path
,
868 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
871 Returns @true if this filename is not absolute.
873 bool IsRelative(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
876 On Mac OS, gets the common type and creator for the given extension.
878 static bool MacFindDefaultTypeAndCreator(const wxString
& ext
,
883 On Mac OS, registers application defined extensions and their default type
886 static void MacRegisterDefaultTypeAndCreator(const wxString
& ext
,
891 On Mac OS, looks up the appropriate type and creator from the registration
894 bool MacSetDefaultTypeAndCreator();
897 Make the file name absolute.
898 This is a shortcut for
900 wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_DOTS | wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE |
901 wxPATH_NORM_TILDE, cwd, format)
904 @see MakeRelativeTo(), Normalize(), IsAbsolute()
906 bool MakeAbsolute(const wxString
& cwd
= wxEmptyString
,
907 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
910 This function tries to put this file name in a form relative to
912 In other words, it returns the file name which should be used to access
913 this file if the current directory were pathBase.
916 The directory to use as root, current directory is used by default
918 The file name format, native by default
920 @return @true if the file name has been changed, @false if we failed to do
921 anything with it (currently this only happens if the file name
922 is on a volume different from the volume specified by @a pathBase).
926 bool MakeRelativeTo(const wxString
& pathBase
= wxEmptyString
,
927 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
933 The permissions for the newly created directory.
934 See the ::wxPosixPermissions enumeration for more info.
936 If the flags contain @c wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL flag, try to create each
937 directory in the path and also don't return an error if the target
938 directory already exists.
940 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully created, @false
943 bool Mkdir(int perm
= wxS_DIR_DEFAULT
, int flags
= 0) const;
949 The directory to create
951 The permissions for the newly created directory.
952 See the ::wxPosixPermissions enumeration for more info.
954 If the flags contain @c wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL flag, try to create each
955 directory in the path and also don't return an error if the target
956 directory already exists.
958 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully created, @false
961 static bool Mkdir(const wxString
& dir
, int perm
= wxS_DIR_DEFAULT
,
965 Normalize the path. With the default flags value, the path will be
966 made absolute, without any ".." and "." and all environment
967 variables will be expanded in it.
970 The kind of normalization to do with the file name. It can be
971 any or-combination of the ::wxPathNormalize enumeration values.
973 If not empty, this directory will be used instead of current
974 working directory in normalization (see @c wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE).
976 The file name format to use when processing the paths, native by default.
978 @return @true if normalization was successfully or @false otherwise.
980 bool Normalize(int flags
= wxPATH_NORM_ALL
,
981 const wxString
& cwd
= wxEmptyString
,
982 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
985 Prepends a directory to the file path.
986 Please see AppendDir() for important notes.
988 void PrependDir(const wxString
& dir
);
991 Removes the specified directory component from the path.
995 void RemoveDir(size_t pos
);
998 Removes last directory component from the path.
1000 void RemoveLastDir();
1003 If the path contains the value of the environment variable named @a envname
1004 then this function replaces it with the string obtained from
1005 wxString::Format(replacementFmtString, value_of_envname_variable).
1007 This function is useful to make the path shorter or to make it dependent
1008 from a certain environment variable.
1009 Normalize() with @c wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS can perform the opposite of this
1010 function (depending on the value of @a replacementFmtString).
1012 The name and extension of this filename are not modified.
1016 wxFileName fn("/usr/openwin/lib/someFile");
1017 fn.ReplaceEnvVariable("OPENWINHOME");
1018 // now fn.GetFullPath() == "$OPENWINHOME/lib/someFile"
1023 @return @true if the operation was successful (which doesn't mean
1024 that something was actually replaced, just that ::wxGetEnv
1027 bool ReplaceEnvVariable(const wxString
& envname
,
1028 const wxString
& replacementFmtString
= "$%s",
1029 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1032 Replaces, if present in the path, the home directory for the given user
1033 (see ::wxGetHomeDir) with a tilde (~).
1035 Normalize() with @c wxPATH_NORM_TILDE performs the opposite of this
1038 The name and extension of this filename are not modified.
1042 @return @true if the operation was successful (which doesn't mean
1043 that something was actually replaced, just that ::wxGetHomeDir
1046 bool ReplaceHomeDir(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1050 Deletes the specified directory from the file system.
1053 Can contain one of wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL or wxPATH_RMDIR_RECURSIVE. By
1054 default contains neither so the directory will not be removed
1057 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully deleted, @false
1060 bool Rmdir(int flags
= 0) const;
1063 Deletes the specified directory from the file system.
1066 The directory to delete
1068 Can contain one of wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL or wxPATH_RMDIR_RECURSIVE. By
1069 default contains neither so the directory will not be removed
1072 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully deleted, @false
1075 static bool Rmdir(const wxString
& dir
, int flags
= 0);
1078 Compares the filename using the rules of this platform.
1080 bool SameAs(const wxFileName
& filepath
,
1081 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
1084 Changes the current working directory.
1086 bool SetCwd() const;
1089 Changes the current working directory.
1091 static bool SetCwd(const wxString
& cwd
);
1094 Sets the extension of the file name to be an empty extension.
1095 This is different from having no extension at all as the file
1096 name will have a trailing dot after a call to this method.
1098 @see SetExt(), ClearExt()
1103 Sets the extension of the file name.
1105 Setting an empty string as the extension will remove the extension
1106 resulting in a file name without a trailing dot, unlike a call to
1109 @see SetEmptyExt(), ClearExt()
1111 void SetExt(const wxString
& ext
);
1114 The full name is the file name and extension (but without the path).
1116 void SetFullName(const wxString
& fullname
);
1119 Sets the name part (without extension).
1123 void SetName(const wxString
& name
);
1128 The @a path argument includes both the path (and the volume, if
1129 supported by @a format) and the name and extension.
1133 void SetPath(const wxString
& path
, wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1136 Sets the file creation and last access/modification times (any of the pointers
1139 bool SetTimes(const wxDateTime
* dtAccess
,
1140 const wxDateTime
* dtMod
,
1141 const wxDateTime
* dtCreate
) const;
1144 Sets the volume specifier.
1146 void SetVolume(const wxString
& volume
);
1150 This function splits a full file name into components: the volume (with the
1151 first version) path (including the volume in the second version), the base name
1154 Any of the output parameters (@e volume, @e path, @a name or @e ext) may
1155 be @NULL if you are not interested in the value of a particular component.
1156 Also, @a fullpath may be empty on entry.
1157 On return, @a path contains the file path (without the trailing separator),
1158 @a name contains the file name and @a ext contains the file extension
1159 without leading dot. All three of them may be empty if the corresponding
1160 component is. The old contents of the strings pointed to by these parameters
1161 will be overwritten in any case (if the pointers are not @NULL).
1163 Note that for a filename "foo." the extension is present, as indicated by the
1164 trailing dot, but empty. If you need to cope with such cases, you should use
1165 @a hasExt instead of relying on testing whether @a ext is empty or not.
1167 static void SplitPath(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1172 bool* hasExt
= NULL
,
1173 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1174 static void SplitPath(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1179 wxPathFormat format
);
1180 static void SplitPath(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1184 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1188 Splits the given @a fullpath into the volume part (which may be empty) and
1189 the pure path part, not containing any volume.
1193 static void SplitVolume(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1196 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1200 Strip the file extension.
1202 This function does more than just removing everything after the last
1203 period from the string, for example it will return the string ".vimrc"
1204 unchanged because the part after the period is not an extension but the
1205 file name in this case. You can use wxString::BeforeLast() to really
1206 get just the part before the last period (but notice that that function
1207 returns empty string if period is not present at all unlike this
1208 function which returns the @a fullname unchanged in this case).
1211 File path including name and, optionally, extension.
1214 File path without extension
1218 static wxString
StripExtension(const wxString
& fullname
);
1221 Sets the access and modification times to the current moment.
1226 Returns @true if the filenames are different. The string @e filenames
1227 is interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1229 bool operator!=(const wxFileName
& filename
) const;
1232 Returns @true if the filenames are different. The string @e filenames
1233 is interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1235 bool operator!=(const wxString
& filename
) const;
1238 Returns @true if the filenames are equal. The string @e filenames is
1239 interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1241 bool operator==(const wxFileName
& filename
) const;
1244 Returns @true if the filenames are equal. The string @e filenames is
1245 interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1247 bool operator==(const wxString
& filename
) const;
1250 Assigns the new value to this filename object.
1252 wxFileName
& operator=(const wxFileName
& filename
);
1255 Assigns the new value to this filename object.
1257 wxFileName
& operator=(const wxString
& filename
);