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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 license
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 wxPathList();
28
29 /**
30 Constructs the object calling the Add() function.
31 */
32 wxPathList(const wxArrayString& arr);
33
34 /**
35 Adds the given directory to the path list, if the @a path is not already in the list.
36 If the path cannot be normalized for some reason, it returns @false.
37
38 The @a path is always considered to be a directory but no existence checks will be
39 done on it (because if it doesn't exist, it could be created later and thus result a
40 valid path when FindValidPath() is called).
41
42 @note if the given path is relative, it won't be made absolute before adding it
43 (this is why FindValidPath() may return relative paths).
44 */
45 bool Add(const wxString& path);
46
47 /**
48 Adds all elements of the given array as paths.
49 */
50 void Add(const wxArrayString& arr);
51
52 /**
53 Finds the value of the given environment variable, and adds all paths
54 to the path list.
55
56 Useful for finding files in the @c PATH variable, for example.
57 */
58 void AddEnvList(const wxString& env_variable);
59
60 /**
61 Given a full filename (with path), calls Add() with the path of the file.
62 */
63 bool EnsureFileAccessible(const wxString& filename);
64
65 /**
66 Like FindValidPath() but this function always returns an absolute path
67 (eventually prepending the current working directory to the value returned
68 wxPathList::FindValidPath()) or an empty string.
69 */
70 wxString FindAbsoluteValidPath(const wxString& file) const;
71
72 /**
73 Searches the given file in all paths stored in this class.
74
75 The first path which concatenated to the given string points to an existing
76 file (see wxFileExists()) is returned.
77
78 If the file wasn't found in any of the stored paths, an empty string is returned.
79
80 The given string must be a file name, eventually with a path prefix (if the path
81 prefix is absolute, only its name will be searched); i.e. it must not end with
82 a directory separator (see wxFileName::GetPathSeparator) otherwise an assertion
83 will fail.
84
85 The returned path may be relative to the current working directory.
86
87 Note in fact that wxPathList can be used to store both relative and absolute
88 paths so that if you added relative paths, then the current working directory
89 (see wxGetCwd() and wxSetWorkingDirectory()) may affect the value returned
90 by this function!
91 */
92 wxString FindValidPath(const wxString& file) const;
93 };
94
95
96
97 // ============================================================================
98 // Global functions/macros
99 // ============================================================================
100
101 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_file */
102 //@{
103
104 /**
105 A special return value of many wxWidgets classes to indicate that
106 an invalid offset was given.
107 */
108 const int wxInvalidOffset = -1;
109
110 /**
111 Under Unix this macro changes the current process umask to the given value,
112 unless it is equal to -1 in which case nothing is done, and restores it to
113 the original value on scope exit. It works by declaring a variable which
114 sets umask to @a mask in its constructor and restores it in its destructor.
115 Under other platforms this macro expands to nothing.
116
117 @header{wx/filefn.h}
118 */
119 #define wxCHANGE_UMASK(mask)
120
121 /**
122 This function returns the total number of bytes and number of free bytes on
123 the disk containing the directory @a path (it should exist). Both @a total
124 and @a free parameters may be @NULL if the corresponding information is not
125 needed.
126
127 @since 2.3.2
128
129 @note The generic Unix implementation depends on the system having the
130 @c statfs() or @c statvfs() function.
131
132 @return @true on success, @false if an error occurred (for example, the
133 directory doesn’t exist).
134
135 @header{wx/filefn.h}
136 */
137 bool wxGetDiskSpace(const wxString& path,
138 wxLongLong total = NULL,
139 wxLongLong free = NULL);
140
141 /**
142 Returns the Windows directory under Windows; other platforms return an
143 empty string.
144
145 @header{wx/filefn.h}
146 */
147 wxString wxGetOSDirectory();
148
149 /**
150 Parses the @a wildCard, returning the number of filters. Returns 0 if none
151 or if there's a problem.
152
153 The arrays will contain an equal number of items found before the error. On
154 platforms where native dialogs handle only one filter per entry, entries in
155 arrays are automatically adjusted. @a wildCard is in the form:
156
157 @code
158 "All files (*)|*|Image Files (*.jpeg *.png)|*.jpg;*.png"
159 @endcode
160
161 @header{wx/filefn.h}
162 */
163 int wxParseCommonDialogsFilter(const wxString& wildCard,
164 wxArrayString& descriptions,
165 wxArrayString& filters);
166
167 /**
168 Converts a DOS to a Unix filename by replacing backslashes with forward
169 slashes.
170
171 @header{wx/filefn.h}
172 */
173 void wxDos2UnixFilename(wxChar* s);
174
175 /**
176 @warning This function is deprecated, use wxFileName instead.
177
178 Converts a Unix to a DOS filename by replacing forward slashes with
179 backslashes.
180
181 @header{wx/filefn.h}
182 */
183 void wxUnix2DosFilename(wxChar* s);
184
185 /**
186 Returns @true if @a dirname exists and is a directory.
187
188 @header{wx/filefn.h}
189 */
190 bool wxDirExists(const wxString& dirname);
191
192 /**
193 @warning This function is obsolete, please use wxFileName::SplitPath()
194 instead.
195
196 This function splits a full file name into components: the path (including
197 possible disk/drive specification under Windows), the base name, and the
198 extension. Any of the output parameters (@a path, @a name or @a ext) may be
199 @NULL if you are not interested in the value of a particular component.
200
201 wxSplitPath() will correctly handle filenames with both DOS and Unix path
202 separators under Windows, however it will not consider backslashes as path
203 separators under Unix (where backslash is a valid character in a filename).
204
205 On entry, @a fullname should be non-@NULL (it may be empty though).
206
207 On return, @a path contains the file path (without the trailing separator),
208 @a name contains the file name and @c ext contains the file extension
209 without leading dot. All three of them may be empty if the corresponding
210 component is. The old contents of the strings pointed to by these
211 parameters will be overwritten in any case (if the pointers are not @NULL).
212
213 @header{wx/filefn.h}
214 */
215 void wxSplitPath(const wxString& fullname,
216 wxString* path,
217 wxString* name,
218 wxString* ext);
219
220 /**
221 Returns time of last modification of given file.
222
223 The function returns <tt>(time_t)-1</tt> if an error occurred (e.g. file
224 not found).
225
226 @header{wx/filefn.h}
227 */
228 time_t wxFileModificationTime(const wxString& filename);
229
230 /**
231 Renames @a file1 to @e file2, returning @true if successful.
232
233 If @a overwrite parameter is @true (default), the destination file is
234 overwritten if it exists, but if @a overwrite is @false, the functions
235 fails in this case.
236
237 @header{wx/filefn.h}
238 */
239 bool wxRenameFile(const wxString& file1,
240 const wxString& file2,
241 bool overwrite = true);
242
243 /**
244 Copies @a file1 to @e file2, returning @true if successful. If @a overwrite
245 parameter is @true (default), the destination file is overwritten if it
246 exists, but if @a overwrite is @false, the functions fails in this case.
247
248 This function supports resources forks under Mac OS.
249
250 @header{wx/filefn.h}
251 */
252 bool wxCopyFile(const wxString& file1,
253 const wxString& file2,
254 bool overwrite = true);
255
256 /**
257 Returns @true if the file exists and is a plain file.
258
259 @header{wx/filefn.h}
260 */
261 bool wxFileExists(const wxString& filename);
262
263 /**
264 Returns @true if the @a pattern matches the @e text; if @a dot_special is
265 @true, filenames beginning with a dot are not matched with wildcard
266 characters.
267
268 @see wxIsWild()
269
270 @header{wx/filefn.h}
271 */
272 bool wxMatchWild(const wxString& pattern,
273 const wxString& text,
274 bool dot_special);
275
276 /**
277 @warning This function is deprecated, use wxGetCwd() instead.
278
279 Copies the current working directory into the buffer if supplied, or copies
280 the working directory into new storage (which you must delete yourself) if
281 the buffer is @NULL.
282
283 @a sz is the size of the buffer if supplied.
284
285 @header{wx/filefn.h}
286 */
287 wxString wxGetWorkingDirectory(char* buf = NULL, int sz = 1000);
288
289 /**
290 Returns the directory part of the filename.
291
292 @header{wx/filefn.h}
293 */
294 wxString wxPathOnly(const wxString& path);
295
296 /**
297 Returns @true if the pattern contains wildcards.
298
299 @see wxMatchWild()
300
301 @header{wx/filefn.h}
302 */
303 bool wxIsWild(const wxString& pattern);
304
305 /**
306 Returns @true if the argument is an absolute filename, i.e. with a slash
307 or drive name at the beginning.
308
309 @header{wx/filefn.h}
310 */
311 bool wxIsAbsolutePath(const wxString& filename);
312
313 /**
314 Returns a string containing the current (or working) directory.
315
316 @header{wx/filefn.h}
317 */
318 wxString wxGetCwd();
319
320 /**
321 Sets the current working directory, returning @true if the operation
322 succeeded. Under MS Windows, the current drive is also changed if @a dir
323 contains a drive specification.
324
325 @header{wx/filefn.h}
326 */
327 bool wxSetWorkingDirectory(const wxString& dir);
328
329 /**
330 Concatenates @a file1 and @a file2 to @e file3, returning @true if
331 successful.
332
333 @header{wx/filefn.h}
334 */
335 bool wxConcatFiles(const wxString& file1,
336 const wxString& file2,
337 const wxString& file3);
338
339 /**
340 Removes @e file, returning @true if successful.
341
342 @header{wx/filefn.h}
343 */
344 bool wxRemoveFile(const wxString& file);
345
346 /**
347 Makes the directory @a dir, returning @true if successful.
348
349 @a perm is the access mask for the directory for the systems on which it is
350 supported (Unix) and doesn't have any effect on the other ones.
351
352 @header{wx/filefn.h}
353 */
354 bool wxMkdir(const wxString& dir, int perm = 0777);
355
356 /**
357 Removes the directory @a dir, returning @true if successful. Does not work
358 under VMS.
359
360 The @a flags parameter is reserved for future use.
361
362 @note There is also a wxRmDir() function which simply wraps the standard
363 POSIX @c rmdir() function and so return an integer error code instead
364 of a boolean value (but otherwise is currently identical to
365 wxRmdir()), don't confuse these two functions.
366
367 @header{wx/filefn.h}
368 */
369 bool wxRmdir(const wxString& dir, int flags = 0);
370
371 /**
372 Returns the next file that matches the path passed to wxFindFirstFile().
373
374 See wxFindFirstFile() for an example.
375
376 @header{wx/filefn.h}
377 */
378 wxString wxFindNextFile();
379
380 /**
381 This function does directory searching; returns the first file that matches
382 the path @a spec, or the empty string. Use wxFindNextFile() to get the next
383 matching file. Neither will report the current directory "." or the parent
384 directory "..".
385
386 @warning As of 2.5.2, these functions are not thread-safe! (they use static
387 variables). You probably want to use wxDir::GetFirst() or
388 wxDirTraverser instead.
389
390 @a spec may contain wildcards.
391
392 @a flags may be wxDIR for restricting the query to directories, wxFILE for
393 files or zero for either.
394
395 For example:
396
397 @code
398 wxString f = wxFindFirstFile("/home/project/*.*");
399 while ( !f.empty() )
400 {
401 ...
402 f = wxFindNextFile();
403 }
404 @endcode
405
406 @header{wx/filefn.h}
407 */
408 wxString wxFindFirstFile(const wxString& spec, int flags = 0);
409
410 /**
411 File kind enumerations returned from wxGetFileKind().
412
413 @header{wx/filefn.h}
414 */
415 enum wxFileKind
416 {
417 wxFILE_KIND_UNKNOWN, ///< Unknown file kind, or unable to determine
418 wxFILE_KIND_DISK, ///< A file supporting seeking to arbitrary offsets
419 wxFILE_KIND_TERMINAL, ///< A tty
420 wxFILE_KIND_PIPE ///< A pipe
421 };
422
423 //@}
424
425 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_file */
426 //@{
427 /**
428 Returns the type of an open file. Possible return values are enumerations
429 of ::wxFileKind.
430
431 @header{wx/filefn.h}
432 */
433 wxFileKind wxGetFileKind(int fd);
434 wxFileKind wxGetFileKind(FILE* fp);
435 //@}
436
437 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_file */
438 //@{
439 /**
440 @warning This function is obsolete, please use wxFileName::SplitPath()
441 instead.
442
443 Returns the filename for a full path. The second form returns a pointer to
444 temporary storage that should not be deallocated.
445
446 @header{wx/filefn.h}
447 */
448 wxString wxFileNameFromPath(const wxString& path);
449 char* wxFileNameFromPath(char* path);
450 //@}
451
452 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_file */
453 //@{
454 /**
455 @warning This function is obsolete, please use
456 wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() instead.
457
458 @header{wx/filefn.h}
459 */
460 char* wxGetTempFileName(const wxString& prefix, char* buf = NULL);
461 bool wxGetTempFileName(const wxString& prefix, wxString& buf);
462 //@}
463