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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: filename.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxFileName
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9
10 /**
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
13 (as under Windows).
14
15 See wxFileName for more info.
16 */
17 enum wxPathFormat
18 {
19 wxPATH_NATIVE = 0, //!< the path format for the current platform.
20 wxPATH_UNIX,
21 wxPATH_BEOS = wxPATH_UNIX,
22 wxPATH_MAC,
23 wxPATH_DOS,
24 wxPATH_WIN = wxPATH_DOS,
25 wxPATH_OS2 = wxPATH_DOS,
26 wxPATH_VMS,
27
28 wxPATH_MAX //!< Not a valid value for specifying path format
29 };
30
31 /**
32 Different conventions for human readable sizes.
33
34 @see wxFileName::GetHumanReadableSize().
35
36 @since 2.9.1
37 */
38 enum wxSizeConvention
39 {
40 /// 1024 bytes = 1KB.
41 wxSIZE_CONV_TRADITIONAL,
42
43 /// 1024 bytes = 1KiB.
44 wxSIZE_CONV_IEC,
45
46 /// 1000 bytes = 1KB.
47 wxSIZE_CONV_SI
48 };
49
50
51 /**
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.
55 */
56 enum wxPathNormalize
57 {
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,
63
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).
70
71 //! A value indicating all normalization flags except for @c wxPATH_NORM_CASE.
72 wxPATH_NORM_ALL = 0x00ff & ~wxPATH_NORM_CASE
73 };
74
75 /**
76 Flags for wxFileName::Rmdir().
77 */
78 enum
79 {
80 /// Delete the specified directory and its subdirectories if they are empty.
81 wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL = 1,
82
83 /**
84 Delete the specified directory and all the files and subdirectories in it
85 recursively.
86
87 This flag is obviously @b dangerous and should be used with care and
88 after asking the user for confirmation.
89 */
90 wxPATH_RMDIR_RECURSIVE = 2
91 };
92
93 /**
94 The return value of wxFileName::GetSize() in case of error.
95 */
96 wxULongLong wxInvalidSize;
97
98
99 /**
100 @class wxFileName
101
102 wxFileName encapsulates a file name.
103
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.
111
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:
115
116 @code
117 wxFileName dirname( "C:\mydir", "" );
118 MyMethod( dirname.GetPath() );
119 @endcode
120
121 The same can be done using the static method wxFileName::DirName():
122
123 @code
124 wxFileName dirname = wxFileName::DirName( "C:\mydir" );
125 MyMethod( dirname.GetPath() );
126 @endcode
127
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().
131
132 If it is not known whether 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:
137
138 @code
139 wxString user_input;
140 // get input from user
141
142 wxFileName fname;
143 if (wxDirExists(user_input))
144 fname.AssignDir( user_input );
145 else
146 fname.Assign( user_input );
147 @endcode
148
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.
156
157
158 @section filename_format File name format
159
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.
171
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()
176 method.
177
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().
186
187
188 @section filename_construction File name construction
189
190 You can initialize a wxFileName instance using one of the following functions:
191
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=()
201
202
203 @section filename_tests File name tests
204
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:
211
212 @li wxFileName::IsDirWritable()
213 @li wxFileName::IsDirReadable()
214 @li wxFileName::IsFileWritable()
215 @li wxFileName::IsFileReadable()
216 @li wxFileName::IsFileExecutable()
217
218
219 @section filename_components File name components
220
221 These functions allow to examine and modify the individual directories
222 of the path:
223
224 @li wxFileName::AppendDir()
225 @li wxFileName::InsertDir()
226 @li wxFileName::GetDirCount()
227 @li wxFileName::PrependDir()
228 @li wxFileName::RemoveDir()
229 @li wxFileName::RemoveLastDir()
230
231 To change the components of the file name individually you can use the
232 following functions:
233
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()
245
246 You can initialize a wxFileName instance using one of the following functions:
247
248
249 @section filename_operations File name operations
250
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.
256
257 @li wxFileName::GetModificationTime()
258 @li wxFileName::GetTimes()
259 @li wxFileName::SetTimes()
260 @li wxFileName::Touch()
261
262 Other file system operations functions are:
263
264 @li wxFileName::Mkdir()
265 @li wxFileName::Rmdir()
266
267
268 @library{wxbase}
269 @category{file}
270 */
271 class wxFileName
272 {
273 public:
274 /**
275 Default constructor.
276 */
277 wxFileName();
278
279 /**
280 Copy constructor.
281 */
282 wxFileName(const wxFileName& filename);
283
284 /**
285 Constructor taking a full filename.
286
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.
290 */
291 wxFileName(const wxString& fullpath,
292 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
293
294 /**
295 Constructor a directory name and file name.
296 */
297 wxFileName(const wxString& path, const wxString& name,
298 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
299
300 /**
301 Constructor from a directory name, base file name and extension.
302 */
303 wxFileName(const wxString& path, const wxString& name,
304 const wxString& ext,
305 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
306
307 /**
308 Constructor from a volume name, a directory name, base file name and extension.
309 */
310 wxFileName(const wxString& volume, const wxString& path,
311 const wxString& name,
312 const wxString& ext,
313 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
314
315 /**
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).
320 */
321 void AppendDir(const wxString& dir);
322
323 /**
324 Creates the file name from another filename object.
325 */
326 void Assign(const wxFileName& filepath);
327
328 /**
329 Creates the file name from a full file name with a path.
330 */
331 void Assign(const wxString& fullpath,
332 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
333
334 /**
335 Creates the file name from volume, path, name and extension.
336 */
337 void Assign(const wxString& volume, const wxString& path,
338 const wxString& name,
339 const wxString& ext,
340 bool hasExt,
341 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
342
343 /**
344 Creates the file name from volume, path, name and extension.
345 */
346 void Assign(const wxString& volume, const wxString& path,
347 const wxString& name,
348 const wxString& ext,
349 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
350
351 /**
352 Creates the file name from file path and file name.
353 */
354 void Assign(const wxString& path, const wxString& name,
355 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
356
357 /**
358 Creates the file name from path, name and extension.
359 */
360 void Assign(const wxString& path, const wxString& name,
361 const wxString& ext,
362 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
363
364 /**
365 Makes this object refer to the current working directory on the specified
366 volume (or current volume if @a volume is empty).
367
368 @see GetCwd()
369 */
370 void AssignCwd(const wxString& volume = wxEmptyString);
371
372 /**
373 Sets this file name object to the given directory name.
374 The name and extension will be empty.
375 */
376 void AssignDir(const wxString& dir,
377 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
378
379 /**
380 Sets this file name object to the home directory.
381 */
382 void AssignHomeDir();
383
384 /**
385 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary file
386 and sets this object to the name of the file.
387
388 If a temporary file couldn't be created, the object is put into
389 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
390 */
391 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString& prefix);
392
393 /**
394 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary
395 file name and open @a fileTemp with it.
396
397 If the file couldn't be opened, the object is put into
398 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
399 */
400 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString& prefix, wxFile* fileTemp);
401
402 /**
403 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary
404 file name and open @a fileTemp with it.
405
406 If the file couldn't be opened, the object is put into
407 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
408 */
409 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString& prefix, wxFFile* fileTemp);
410
411 /**
412 Reset all components to default, uninitialized state.
413 */
414 void Clear();
415
416 /**
417 Removes the extension from the file name resulting in a
418 file name with no trailing dot.
419
420 @see SetExt(), SetEmptyExt()
421 */
422 void ClearExt();
423
424
425 /**
426 Returns a temporary file name starting with the given @e prefix.
427 If @a prefix is an absolute path and ends in a separator, the
428 temporary file is created in this directory; if it is an absolute
429 filepath or there is no separator, the temporary file is created in its
430 path, with the 'name' segment prepended to the temporary filename;
431 otherwise it is created in the default system directory for temporary
432 files or in the current directory.
433
434 If the function succeeds, the temporary file is actually created.
435 If @a fileTemp is not @NULL, this wxFile will be opened using the name of
436 the temporary file. Where possible this is done in an atomic way to ensure that
437 no race condition occurs between creating the temporary file name and opening
438 it, which might lead to a security compromise on multiuser systems.
439 If @a fileTemp is @NULL, the file is created but not opened.
440 Under Unix, the temporary file will have read and write permissions for the
441 owner only, to minimize security problems.
442
443 @param prefix
444 Location to use for the temporary file name construction. If @a prefix
445 is a directory it must have a terminal separator
446 @param fileTemp
447 The file to open, or @NULL just to get the name
448
449 @return The full temporary filepath, or an empty string on error.
450 */
451 static wxString CreateTempFileName(const wxString& prefix,
452 wxFile* fileTemp = NULL);
453
454 /**
455 This is the same as CreateTempFileName(const wxString &prefix, wxFile *fileTemp)
456 but takes a wxFFile parameter instead of wxFile.
457 */
458 static wxString CreateTempFileName(const wxString& prefix,
459 wxFFile* fileTemp = NULL);
460
461
462 /**
463 Returns @true if the directory with this name exists.
464
465 Notice that this function tests the directory part of this object,
466 i.e. the string returned by GetPath(), and not the full path returned
467 by GetFullPath().
468
469 @see FileExists(), Exists()
470 */
471 bool DirExists() const;
472
473 /**
474 Returns @true if the directory with name @a dir exists.
475
476 @see FileExists(), Exists()
477 */
478 static bool DirExists(const wxString& dir);
479
480 /**
481 Returns the object corresponding to the directory with the given name.
482 The @a dir parameter may have trailing path separator or not.
483 */
484 static wxFileName DirName(const wxString& dir,
485 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
486
487 /**
488 Calls the static overload of this function with the full path of this
489 object.
490
491 @since 2.9.4
492 */
493 bool Exists() const;
494
495 /**
496 Returns @true if either a file or a directory or something else with
497 this name exists in the file system.
498
499 This method is equivalent to @code FileExists() || DirExists() @endcode
500 under most systems but under Unix it also returns true if the file
501 identifies a special file system object such as a device, a socket or a
502 FIFO.
503
504 @since 2.9.4
505
506 @see FileExists(), DirExists()
507 */
508 static bool Exists(const wxString& path);
509
510 /**
511 Returns @true if the file with this name exists.
512
513 @see DirExists(), Exists()
514 */
515 bool FileExists() const;
516
517 /**
518 Returns @true if the file with name @a file exists.
519
520 @see DirExists(), Exists()
521 */
522 static bool FileExists(const wxString& file);
523
524 /**
525 Returns the file name object corresponding to the given @e file. This
526 function exists mainly for symmetry with DirName().
527 */
528 static wxFileName FileName(const wxString& file,
529 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
530
531 /**
532 Retrieves the value of the current working directory on the specified volume.
533 If the volume is empty, the program's current working directory is returned for
534 the current volume.
535
536 @return The string containing the current working directory or an empty
537 string on error.
538
539 @see AssignCwd()
540 */
541 static wxString GetCwd(const wxString& volume = wxEmptyString);
542
543 /**
544 Returns the number of directories in the file name.
545 */
546 size_t GetDirCount() const;
547
548 /**
549 Returns the directories in string array form.
550 */
551 const wxArrayString& GetDirs() const;
552
553 /**
554 Returns the file name extension.
555 */
556 wxString GetExt() const;
557
558 /**
559 Returns the characters that can't be used in filenames and directory names
560 for the specified format.
561 */
562 static wxString GetForbiddenChars(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
563
564 /**
565 Returns the canonical path format for this platform.
566 */
567 static wxPathFormat GetFormat(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
568
569 /**
570 Returns the full name (including extension but excluding directories).
571 */
572 wxString GetFullName() const;
573
574 /**
575 Returns the full path with name and extension.
576 */
577 wxString GetFullPath(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE) const;
578
579 /**
580 Returns the home directory.
581 */
582 static wxString GetHomeDir();
583
584 //@{
585 /**
586 Returns the representation of the file size in a human-readable form.
587
588 In the first version, the size of this file is used. In the second one,
589 the specified size @a bytes is used.
590
591 If the file size could not be retrieved or @a bytes is ::wxInvalidSize
592 or zero, the @c failmsg string is returned.
593
594 Otherwise the returned string is a floating-point number with @c
595 precision decimal digits followed by the abbreviation of the unit used.
596 By default the traditional, although incorrect, convention of using SI
597 units for multiples of 1024 is used, i.e. returned string will use
598 suffixes of B, KB, MB, GB, TB for bytes, kilobytes, megabytes,
599 gigabytes and terabytes respectively. With the IEC convention the names
600 of the units are changed to B, KiB, MiB, GiB and TiB for bytes,
601 kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes and tebibytes. Finally, with SI
602 convention the same B, KB, MB, GB and TB suffixes are used but in their
603 correct SI meaning, i.e. as multiples of 1000 and not 1024.
604
605 Support for the different size conventions is new in wxWidgets 2.9.1,
606 in previous versions only the traditional convention was implemented.
607 */
608 wxString
609 GetHumanReadableSize(const wxString& failmsg = _("Not available"),
610 int precision = 1,
611 wxSizeConvention conv = wxSIZE_CONV_TRADITIONAL) const;
612
613 static wxString
614 GetHumanReadableSize(const wxULongLong& bytes,
615 const wxString& nullsize = _("Not available"),
616 int precision = 1,
617 wxSizeConvention conv = wxSIZE_CONV_TRADITIONAL);
618 //@}
619
620 /**
621 Return the long form of the path (returns identity on non-Windows platforms).
622 */
623 wxString GetLongPath() const;
624
625 /**
626 Returns the last time the file was last modified.
627 */
628 wxDateTime GetModificationTime() const;
629
630 /**
631 Returns the name part of the filename (without extension).
632
633 @see GetFullName()
634 */
635 wxString GetName() const;
636
637 /**
638 Returns the path part of the filename (without the name or extension).
639
640 The possible flags values are:
641
642 - @b wxPATH_GET_VOLUME:
643 Return the path with the volume (does nothing for the filename formats
644 without volumes), otherwise the path without volume part is returned.
645
646 - @b wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR:
647 Return the path with the trailing separator, if this flag is not given
648 there will be no separator at the end of the path.
649
650 - @b wxPATH_NO_SEPARATOR:
651 Don't include the trailing separator in the returned string. This is
652 the default (the value of this flag is 0) and exists only for symmetry
653 with wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR.
654
655 @note If the path is a toplevel one (e.g. @c "/" on Unix or @c "C:\" on
656 Windows), then the returned path will contain trailing separator
657 even with @c wxPATH_NO_SEPARATOR.
658 */
659 wxString GetPath(int flags = wxPATH_GET_VOLUME,
660 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE) const;
661
662 /**
663 Returns the usually used path separator for this format.
664 For all formats but @c wxPATH_DOS there is only one path separator anyhow,
665 but for DOS there are two of them and the native one, i.e. the backslash
666 is returned by this method.
667
668 @see GetPathSeparators()
669 */
670 static wxUniChar GetPathSeparator(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
671
672 /**
673 Returns the string containing all the path separators for this format.
674 For all formats but @c wxPATH_DOS this string contains only one character
675 but for DOS and Windows both @c '/' and @c '\' may be used as separators.
676
677 @see GetPathSeparator()
678 */
679 static wxString GetPathSeparators(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
680
681 /**
682 Returns the string of characters which may terminate the path part.
683 This is the same as GetPathSeparators() except for VMS
684 path format where ] is used at the end of the path part.
685 */
686 static wxString GetPathTerminators(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
687
688 /**
689 Returns the path with the trailing separator, useful for appending the name
690 to the given path.
691
692 This is the same as calling
693 @code
694 GetPath(wxPATH_GET_VOLUME | wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR, format)
695 @endcode
696 */
697 wxString GetPathWithSep(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE) const;
698
699 /**
700 Return the short form of the path (returns identity on non-Windows platforms).
701 */
702 wxString GetShortPath() const;
703
704 /**
705 Returns the size of the file If the file does not exist or its size could
706 not be read (because e.g. the file is locked by another process) the returned
707 value is ::wxInvalidSize.
708 */
709 wxULongLong GetSize() const;
710
711 /**
712 Returns the size of the file If the file does not exist or its size could
713 not be read (because e.g. the file is locked by another process) the returned
714 value is ::wxInvalidSize.
715 */
716 static wxULongLong GetSize(const wxString& filename);
717
718 /**
719 Returns the directory used for temporary files.
720 */
721 static wxString GetTempDir();
722
723 /**
724 Returns the last access, last modification and creation times.
725 The last access time is updated whenever the file is read or written
726 (or executed in the case of Windows), last modification time is only
727 changed when the file is written to.
728 Finally, the creation time is indeed the time when the file was created
729 under Windows and the inode change time under Unix (as it is impossible to
730 retrieve the real file creation time there anyhow) which can also be changed
731 by many operations after the file creation.
732
733 If no filename or extension is specified in this instance of wxFileName
734 (and therefore IsDir() returns @true) then this function will return the
735 directory times of the path specified by GetPath(), otherwise the file
736 times of the file specified by GetFullPath().
737 Any of the pointers may be @NULL if the corresponding time is not needed.
738
739 @return @true on success, @false if we failed to retrieve the times.
740 */
741 bool GetTimes(wxDateTime* dtAccess, wxDateTime* dtMod,
742 wxDateTime* dtCreate) const;
743
744 /**
745 Returns the string containing the volume for this file name, empty if it
746 doesn't have one or if the file system doesn't support volumes at all
747 (for example, Unix).
748 */
749 wxString GetVolume() const;
750
751 /**
752 Returns the string separating the volume from the path for this format.
753 */
754 static wxString GetVolumeSeparator(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
755
756 /**
757 This function builds a volume path string, for example "C:\\".
758
759 Implemented for the platforms which use drive letters, i.e. DOS, MSW
760 and OS/2 only.
761
762 @since 2.9.0
763
764 @param drive
765 The drive letter, 'A' through 'Z' or 'a' through 'z'.
766
767 @param flags
768 @c wxPATH_NO_SEPARATOR or @c wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR to omit or include
769 the trailing path separator, the default is to include it.
770
771 @return Volume path string.
772 */
773 static wxString GetVolumeString(char drive, int flags = wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR);
774
775 /**
776 Returns @true if an extension is present.
777 */
778 bool HasExt() const;
779
780 /**
781 Returns @true if a name is present.
782 */
783 bool HasName() const;
784
785 /**
786 Returns @true if a volume specifier is present.
787 */
788 bool HasVolume() const;
789
790 /**
791 Inserts a directory component before the zero-based position in the directory
792 list. Please see AppendDir() for important notes.
793 */
794 void InsertDir(size_t before, const wxString& dir);
795
796 /**
797 Returns @true if this filename is absolute.
798 */
799 bool IsAbsolute(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE) const;
800
801 /**
802 Returns @true if the file names of this type are case-sensitive.
803 */
804 static bool IsCaseSensitive(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
805
806 /**
807 Returns @true if this object represents a directory, @false otherwise
808 (i.e. if it is a file).
809
810 Note that this method doesn't test whether the directory or file really
811 exists, you should use DirExists() or FileExists() for this.
812 */
813 bool IsDir() const;
814
815 /**
816 Returns @true if the directory component of this instance is an existing
817 directory and this process has read permissions on it. Read permissions
818 on a directory mean that you can list the directory contents but it
819 doesn't imply that you have read permissions on the files contained.
820 */
821 bool IsDirReadable() const;
822
823 /**
824 Returns @true if the given @e dir is an existing directory and this process
825 has read permissions on it. Read permissions on a directory mean that you
826 can list the directory contents but it doesn't imply that you have read
827 permissions on the files contained.
828 */
829 static bool IsDirReadable(const wxString& dir);
830
831 /**
832 Returns @true if the directory component of this instance
833 is an existing directory and this process has write permissions on it.
834 Write permissions on a directory mean that you can create new files in the
835 directory.
836 */
837 bool IsDirWritable() const;
838
839 /**
840 Returns @true if the given @a dir is an existing directory and this
841 process has write permissions on it.
842 Write permissions on a directory mean that you can create new files in the
843 directory.
844 */
845 static bool IsDirWritable(const wxString& dir);
846
847 /**
848 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has execute
849 permissions on it.
850 */
851 bool IsFileExecutable() const;
852
853 /**
854 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has execute
855 permissions on it.
856 */
857 static bool IsFileExecutable(const wxString& file);
858
859 /**
860 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has read
861 permissions on it.
862 */
863 bool IsFileReadable() const;
864
865 /**
866 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has read
867 permissions on it.
868 */
869 static bool IsFileReadable(const wxString& file);
870
871 /**
872 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has write
873 permissions on it.
874 */
875 bool IsFileWritable() const;
876
877 /**
878 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has write
879 permissions on it.
880 */
881 static bool IsFileWritable(const wxString& file);
882
883 /**
884 Returns @true if the filename is valid, @false if it is not initialized yet.
885 The assignment functions and Clear() may reset the object to the uninitialized,
886 invalid state (the former only do it on failure).
887 */
888 bool IsOk() const;
889
890 /**
891 Returns @true if the char is a path separator for this format.
892 */
893 static bool IsPathSeparator(wxChar ch,
894 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
895
896 /**
897 Returns @true if the volume part of the path is a unique volume name.
898
899 This function will always return @false if the path format is not
900 wxPATH_DOS.
901
902 Unique volume names are Windows volume identifiers which remain the same
903 regardless of where the volume is actually mounted. Example of a path
904 using a volume name could be
905 @code
906 \\?\Volume{8089d7d7-d0ac-11db-9dd0-806d6172696f}\Program Files\setup.exe
907 @endcode
908
909 @since 2.9.1
910 */
911 static bool IsMSWUniqueVolumeNamePath(const wxString& path,
912 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
913
914 /**
915 Returns @true if this filename is not absolute.
916 */
917 bool IsRelative(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE) const;
918
919 /**
920 On Mac OS, gets the common type and creator for the given extension.
921
922 @onlyfor{wxosx}
923 */
924 static bool MacFindDefaultTypeAndCreator(const wxString& ext,
925 wxUint32* type,
926 wxUint32* creator);
927
928 /**
929 On Mac OS, registers application defined extensions and their default type
930 and creator.
931
932 @onlyfor{wxosx}
933 */
934 static void MacRegisterDefaultTypeAndCreator(const wxString& ext,
935 wxUint32 type,
936 wxUint32 creator);
937
938 /**
939 On Mac OS, looks up the appropriate type and creator from the registration
940 and then sets it.
941
942 @onlyfor{wxosx}
943 */
944 bool MacSetDefaultTypeAndCreator();
945
946 /**
947 Make the file name absolute.
948 This is a shortcut for
949 @code
950 wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_DOTS | wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE |
951 wxPATH_NORM_TILDE, cwd, format)
952 @endcode
953
954 @see MakeRelativeTo(), Normalize(), IsAbsolute()
955 */
956 bool MakeAbsolute(const wxString& cwd = wxEmptyString,
957 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
958
959 /**
960 This function tries to put this file name in a form relative to
961 @a pathBase.
962 In other words, it returns the file name which should be used to access
963 this file if the current directory were pathBase.
964
965 @param pathBase
966 The directory to use as root, current directory is used by default
967 @param format
968 The file name format, native by default
969
970 @return @true if the file name has been changed, @false if we failed to do
971 anything with it (currently this only happens if the file name
972 is on a volume different from the volume specified by @a pathBase).
973
974 @see Normalize()
975 */
976 bool MakeRelativeTo(const wxString& pathBase = wxEmptyString,
977 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
978
979 /**
980 Creates a directory.
981
982 @param perm
983 The permissions for the newly created directory.
984 See the ::wxPosixPermissions enumeration for more info.
985 @param flags
986 If the flags contain @c wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL flag, try to create each
987 directory in the path and also don't return an error if the target
988 directory already exists.
989
990 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully created, @false
991 otherwise.
992 */
993 bool Mkdir(int perm = wxS_DIR_DEFAULT, int flags = 0) const;
994
995 /**
996 Creates a directory.
997
998 @param dir
999 The directory to create
1000 @param perm
1001 The permissions for the newly created directory.
1002 See the ::wxPosixPermissions enumeration for more info.
1003 @param flags
1004 If the flags contain @c wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL flag, try to create each
1005 directory in the path and also don't return an error if the target
1006 directory already exists.
1007
1008 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully created, @false
1009 otherwise.
1010 */
1011 static bool Mkdir(const wxString& dir, int perm = wxS_DIR_DEFAULT,
1012 int flags = 0);
1013
1014 /**
1015 Normalize the path.
1016
1017 With the default flags value, the path will be made absolute, without
1018 any ".." and "." and all environment variables will be expanded in it.
1019
1020 Notice that in some rare cases normalizing a valid path may result in
1021 an invalid wxFileName object. E.g. normalizing "./" path using
1022 wxPATH_NORM_DOTS but not wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE will result in a
1023 completely empty and thus invalid object. As long as there is a non
1024 empty file name the result of normalization will be valid however.
1025
1026 @param flags
1027 The kind of normalization to do with the file name. It can be
1028 any or-combination of the ::wxPathNormalize enumeration values.
1029 @param cwd
1030 If not empty, this directory will be used instead of current
1031 working directory in normalization (see @c wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE).
1032 @param format
1033 The file name format to use when processing the paths, native by default.
1034
1035 @return @true if normalization was successfully or @false otherwise.
1036 */
1037 bool Normalize(int flags = wxPATH_NORM_ALL,
1038 const wxString& cwd = wxEmptyString,
1039 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
1040
1041 /**
1042 Prepends a directory to the file path.
1043 Please see AppendDir() for important notes.
1044 */
1045 void PrependDir(const wxString& dir);
1046
1047 /**
1048 Removes the specified directory component from the path.
1049
1050 @see GetDirCount()
1051 */
1052 void RemoveDir(size_t pos);
1053
1054 /**
1055 Removes last directory component from the path.
1056 */
1057 void RemoveLastDir();
1058
1059 /**
1060 If the path contains the value of the environment variable named @a envname
1061 then this function replaces it with the string obtained from
1062 wxString::Format(replacementFmtString, value_of_envname_variable).
1063
1064 This function is useful to make the path shorter or to make it dependent
1065 from a certain environment variable.
1066 Normalize() with @c wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS can perform the opposite of this
1067 function (depending on the value of @a replacementFmtString).
1068
1069 The name and extension of this filename are not modified.
1070
1071 Example:
1072 @code
1073 wxFileName fn("/usr/openwin/lib/someFile");
1074 fn.ReplaceEnvVariable("OPENWINHOME");
1075 // now fn.GetFullPath() == "$OPENWINHOME/lib/someFile"
1076 @endcode
1077
1078 @since 2.9.0
1079
1080 @return @true if the operation was successful (which doesn't mean
1081 that something was actually replaced, just that ::wxGetEnv
1082 didn't fail).
1083 */
1084 bool ReplaceEnvVariable(const wxString& envname,
1085 const wxString& replacementFmtString = "$%s",
1086 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
1087
1088 /**
1089 Replaces, if present in the path, the home directory for the given user
1090 (see ::wxGetHomeDir) with a tilde (~).
1091
1092 Normalize() with @c wxPATH_NORM_TILDE performs the opposite of this
1093 function.
1094
1095 The name and extension of this filename are not modified.
1096
1097 @since 2.9.0
1098
1099 @return @true if the operation was successful (which doesn't mean
1100 that something was actually replaced, just that ::wxGetHomeDir
1101 didn't fail).
1102 */
1103 bool ReplaceHomeDir(wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
1104
1105
1106 /**
1107 Deletes the specified directory from the file system.
1108
1109 @param flags
1110 Can contain one of wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL or wxPATH_RMDIR_RECURSIVE. By
1111 default contains neither so the directory will not be removed
1112 unless it is empty.
1113
1114 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully deleted, @false
1115 otherwise.
1116 */
1117 bool Rmdir(int flags = 0) const;
1118
1119 /**
1120 Deletes the specified directory from the file system.
1121
1122 @param dir
1123 The directory to delete
1124 @param flags
1125 Can contain one of wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL or wxPATH_RMDIR_RECURSIVE. By
1126 default contains neither so the directory will not be removed
1127 unless it is empty.
1128
1129 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully deleted, @false
1130 otherwise.
1131 */
1132 static bool Rmdir(const wxString& dir, int flags = 0);
1133
1134 /**
1135 Compares the filename using the rules of this platform.
1136 */
1137 bool SameAs(const wxFileName& filepath,
1138 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE) const;
1139
1140 /**
1141 Changes the current working directory.
1142 */
1143 bool SetCwd() const;
1144
1145 /**
1146 Changes the current working directory.
1147 */
1148 static bool SetCwd(const wxString& cwd);
1149
1150 /**
1151 Sets the extension of the file name to be an empty extension.
1152 This is different from having no extension at all as the file
1153 name will have a trailing dot after a call to this method.
1154
1155 @see SetExt(), ClearExt()
1156 */
1157 void SetEmptyExt();
1158
1159 /**
1160 Sets the extension of the file name.
1161
1162 Setting an empty string as the extension will remove the extension
1163 resulting in a file name without a trailing dot, unlike a call to
1164 SetEmptyExt().
1165
1166 @see SetEmptyExt(), ClearExt()
1167 */
1168 void SetExt(const wxString& ext);
1169
1170 /**
1171 The full name is the file name and extension (but without the path).
1172 */
1173 void SetFullName(const wxString& fullname);
1174
1175 /**
1176 Sets the name part (without extension).
1177
1178 @see SetFullName()
1179 */
1180 void SetName(const wxString& name);
1181
1182 /**
1183 Sets the path.
1184
1185 The @a path argument includes both the path and the volume, if
1186 supported by @a format.
1187
1188 Calling this function doesn't affect the name and extension components,
1189 to change them as well you can use Assign() or just an assignment
1190 operator.
1191
1192 @see GetPath()
1193 */
1194 void SetPath(const wxString& path, wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
1195
1196 /**
1197 Sets the file creation and last access/modification times (any of the pointers
1198 may be @NULL).
1199 */
1200 bool SetTimes(const wxDateTime* dtAccess,
1201 const wxDateTime* dtMod,
1202 const wxDateTime* dtCreate) const;
1203
1204 /**
1205 Sets the volume specifier.
1206 */
1207 void SetVolume(const wxString& volume);
1208
1209 //@{
1210 /**
1211 This function splits a full file name into components: the volume (with the
1212 first version) path (including the volume in the second version), the base name
1213 and the extension.
1214
1215 Any of the output parameters (@e volume, @e path, @a name or @e ext) may
1216 be @NULL if you are not interested in the value of a particular component.
1217 Also, @a fullpath may be empty on entry.
1218 On return, @a path contains the file path (without the trailing separator),
1219 @a name contains the file name and @a ext contains the file extension
1220 without leading dot. All three of them may be empty if the corresponding
1221 component is. The old contents of the strings pointed to by these parameters
1222 will be overwritten in any case (if the pointers are not @NULL).
1223
1224 Note that for a filename "foo." the extension is present, as indicated by the
1225 trailing dot, but empty. If you need to cope with such cases, you should use
1226 @a hasExt instead of relying on testing whether @a ext is empty or not.
1227 */
1228 static void SplitPath(const wxString& fullpath,
1229 wxString* volume,
1230 wxString* path,
1231 wxString* name,
1232 wxString* ext,
1233 bool* hasExt = NULL,
1234 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
1235 static void SplitPath(const wxString& fullpath,
1236 wxString* volume,
1237 wxString* path,
1238 wxString* name,
1239 wxString* ext,
1240 wxPathFormat format);
1241 static void SplitPath(const wxString& fullpath,
1242 wxString* path,
1243 wxString* name,
1244 wxString* ext,
1245 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
1246 //@}
1247
1248 /**
1249 Splits the given @a fullpath into the volume part (which may be empty) and
1250 the pure path part, not containing any volume.
1251
1252 @see SplitPath()
1253 */
1254 static void SplitVolume(const wxString& fullpath,
1255 wxString* volume,
1256 wxString* path,
1257 wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
1258
1259
1260 /**
1261 Strip the file extension.
1262
1263 This function does more than just removing everything after the last
1264 period from the string, for example it will return the string ".vimrc"
1265 unchanged because the part after the period is not an extension but the
1266 file name in this case. You can use wxString::BeforeLast() to really
1267 get just the part before the last period (but notice that that function
1268 returns empty string if period is not present at all unlike this
1269 function which returns the @a fullname unchanged in this case).
1270
1271 @param fullname
1272 File path including name and, optionally, extension.
1273
1274 @return
1275 File path without extension
1276
1277 @since 2.9.0
1278 */
1279 static wxString StripExtension(const wxString& fullname);
1280
1281 /**
1282 Sets the access and modification times to the current moment.
1283 */
1284 bool Touch() const;
1285
1286 /**
1287 Returns @true if the filenames are different. The string @e filenames
1288 is interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1289 */
1290 bool operator!=(const wxFileName& filename) const;
1291
1292 /**
1293 Returns @true if the filenames are different. The string @e filenames
1294 is interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1295 */
1296 bool operator!=(const wxString& filename) const;
1297
1298 /**
1299 Returns @true if the filenames are equal. The string @e filenames is
1300 interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1301 */
1302 bool operator==(const wxFileName& filename) const;
1303
1304 /**
1305 Returns @true if the filenames are equal. The string @e filenames is
1306 interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1307 */
1308 bool operator==(const wxString& filename) const;
1309
1310 /**
1311 Assigns the new value to this filename object.
1312 */
1313 wxFileName& operator=(const wxFileName& filename);
1314
1315 /**
1316 Assigns the new value to this filename object.
1317 */
1318 wxFileName& operator=(const wxString& filename);
1319 };