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
33 The kind of normalization to do with the file name: these values can be
34 or'd together to perform several operations at once.
35 See wxFileName::Normalize() for more info.
39 //! Replace environment variables with their values.
40 //! wxFileName understands both Unix and Windows (but only under Windows) environment
41 //! variables expansion: i.e. @c "$var", @c "$(var)" and @c "${var}" are always understood
42 //! and in addition under Windows @c "%var%" is also.
43 wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS
= 0x0001,
45 wxPATH_NORM_DOTS
= 0x0002, //!< Squeeze all @c ".." and @c "." and prepend the current working directory.
46 wxPATH_NORM_TILDE
= 0x0004, //!< Replace @c "~" and @c "~user" (Unix only).
47 wxPATH_NORM_CASE
= 0x0008, //!< If the platform is case insensitive, make lowercase the path.
48 wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE
= 0x0010, //!< Make the path absolute.
49 wxPATH_NORM_LONG
= 0x0020, //!< Expand the path to the "long" form (Windows only).
50 wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT
= 0x0040, //!< Resolve the shortcut, if it is a shortcut (Windows only).
52 //! A value indicating all normalization flags except for @c wxPATH_NORM_CASE.
53 wxPATH_NORM_ALL
= 0x00ff & ~wxPATH_NORM_CASE
57 The return value of wxFileName::GetSize() in case of error.
59 wxULongLong wxInvalidSize
;
65 wxFileName encapsulates a file name.
67 This class serves two purposes: first, it provides the functions to split the
68 file names into components and to recombine these components in the full file
69 name which can then be passed to the OS file functions
70 (and @ref group_funcmacro_file "wxWidgets functions" wrapping them).
71 Second, it includes the functions for working with the files itself. Note that
72 to change the file data you should use wxFile class instead.
73 wxFileName provides functions for working with the file attributes.
75 When working with directory names (i.e. without filename and extension)
76 make sure not to misuse the file name part of this class with the last
77 directory. Instead initialize the wxFileName instance like this:
80 wxFileName dirname( "C:\mydir", "" );
81 MyMethod( dirname.GetPath() );
84 The same can be done using the static method wxFileName::DirName():
87 wxFileName dirname = wxFileName::DirName( "C:\mydir" );
88 MyMethod( dirname.GetPath() );
91 Accordingly, methods dealing with directories or directory names like
92 wxFileName::IsDirReadable() use wxFileName::GetPath() whereas methods dealing
93 with file names like wxFileName::IsFileReadable() use wxFileName::GetFullPath().
95 If it is not known wether a string contains a directory name or a complete
96 file name (such as when interpreting user input) you need to use the static
97 function wxFileName::DirExists() (or its identical variants wxDir::Exists() and
98 wxDirExists()) and construct the wxFileName instance accordingly.
99 This will only work if the directory actually exists, of course:
103 // get input from user
106 if (wxDirExists(user_input))
107 fname.AssignDir( user_input );
109 fname.Assign( user_input );
112 Please note that many wxFileName methods accept the path format argument
113 which is by @c wxPATH_NATIVE by default meaning to use the path format
114 native for the current platform.
115 The path format affects the operation of wxFileName functions in several ways:
116 first and foremost, it defines the path separator character to use, but it
117 also affects other things such as whether the path has the drive part or not.
118 See wxPathFormat for more info.
121 @section filename_format File name format
123 wxFileName currently supports the file names in the Unix, DOS/Windows,
124 Mac OS and VMS formats. Although these formats are quite different,
125 wxFileName tries to treat them all in the same generic way.
126 It supposes that all file names consist of the following parts: the volume
127 (also known as drive under Windows or device under VMS), the path which is
128 a sequence of directory names separated by the path separators and the full
129 filename itself which, in turn, is composed from the base file name and the
130 extension. All of the individual components of the file name may be empty
131 and, for example, the volume name is always empty under Unix, but if they
132 are all empty simultaneously, the filename object is considered to be in an
133 invalid state and wxFileName::IsOk() returns false for it.
135 File names can be case-sensitive or not, the function wxFileName::IsCaseSensitive()
136 allows to determine this. The rules for determining whether the file name is
137 absolute or relative also depend on the file name format and the only portable way
138 to answer this question is to use wxFileName::IsAbsolute() or wxFileName::IsRelative()
141 Note that on Windows,"X:" refers to the current working directory on drive X.
142 Therefore, a wxFileName instance constructed from for example "X:dir/file.ext"
143 treats the portion beyond drive separator as being relative to that directory.
144 To ensure that the filename is absolute, you may use wxFileName::MakeAbsolute().
145 There is also an inverse function wxFileName::MakeRelativeTo() which undoes
146 what wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_DOTS) does.
147 Other functions returning information about the file format provided by this
148 class are wxFileName::GetVolumeSeparator(), wxFileName::IsPathSeparator().
151 @section filename_construction File name construction
153 You can initialize a wxFileName instance using one of the following functions:
155 @li wxFileName::wxFileName()
156 @li wxFileName::Assign()
157 @li wxFileName::AssignCwd()
158 @li wxFileName::AssignDir()
159 @li wxFileName::AssignHomeDir()
160 @li wxFileName::AssignTempFileName()
161 @li wxFileName::DirName()
162 @li wxFileName::FileName()
163 @li wxFileName::operator=()
166 @section filename_tests File name tests
168 Before doing other tests, you should use wxFileName::IsOk() to verify that
169 the filename is well defined. If it is, FileExists() can be used to test whether
170 a file with such name exists and wxFileName::DirExists() can be used to test
171 for directory existence.
172 File names should be compared using the wxFileName::SameAs() method or
173 wxFileName::operator==(). For testing basic access modes, you can use:
175 @li wxFileName::IsDirWritable()
176 @li wxFileName::IsDirReadable()
177 @li wxFileName::IsFileWritable()
178 @li wxFileName::IsFileReadable()
179 @li wxFileName::IsFileExecutable()
182 @section filename_components File name components
184 These functions allow to examine and modify the individual directories
187 @li wxFileName::AppendDir()
188 @li wxFileName::InsertDir()
189 @li wxFileName::GetDirCount()
190 @li wxFileName::PrependDir()
191 @li wxFileName::RemoveDir()
192 @li wxFileName::RemoveLastDir()
194 To change the components of the file name individually you can use the
197 @li wxFileName::GetExt()
198 @li wxFileName::GetName()
199 @li wxFileName::GetVolume()
200 @li wxFileName::HasExt()
201 @li wxFileName::HasName()
202 @li wxFileName::HasVolume()
203 @li wxFileName::SetExt()
204 @li wxFileName::ClearExt()
205 @li wxFileName::SetEmptyExt()
206 @li wxFileName::SetName()
207 @li wxFileName::SetVolume()
209 You can initialize a wxFileName instance using one of the following functions:
212 @section filename_operations File name operations
214 These methods allow to work with the file creation, access and modification
215 times. Note that not all filesystems under all platforms implement these times
216 in the same way. For example, the access time under Windows has a resolution of
217 one day (so it is really the access date and not time). The access time may be
218 updated when the file is executed or not depending on the platform.
220 @li wxFileName::GetModificationTime()
221 @li wxFileName::GetTimes()
222 @li wxFileName::SetTimes()
223 @li wxFileName::Touch()
225 Other file system operations functions are:
227 @li wxFileName::Mkdir()
228 @li wxFileName::Rmdir()
245 wxFileName(const wxFileName
& filename
);
248 Constructor taking a full filename.
250 If it terminates with a '/', a directory path is constructed
251 (the name will be empty), otherwise a file name and extension
252 are extracted from it.
254 wxFileName(const wxString
& fullpath
,
255 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
258 Constructor a directory name and file name.
260 wxFileName(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
261 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
264 Constructor from a directory name, base file name and extension.
266 wxFileName(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
268 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
271 Constructor from a volume name, a directory name, base file name and extension.
273 wxFileName(const wxString
& volume
, const wxString
& path
,
274 const wxString
& name
,
276 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
279 Appends a directory component to the path. This component should contain a
280 single directory name level, i.e. not contain any path or volume separators nor
281 should it be empty, otherwise the function does nothing (and generates an
282 assert failure in debug build).
284 void AppendDir(const wxString
& dir
);
287 Creates the file name from another filename object.
289 void Assign(const wxFileName
& filepath
);
292 Creates the file name from a full file name with a path.
294 void Assign(const wxString
& fullpath
,
295 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
298 Creates the file name from volumne, path, name and extension.
300 void Assign(const wxString
& volume
, const wxString
& path
,
301 const wxString
& name
,
304 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
307 Creates the file name from volumne, path, name and extension.
309 void Assign(const wxString
& volume
, const wxString
& path
,
310 const wxString
& name
,
312 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
315 Creates the file name from file path and file name.
317 void Assign(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
318 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
321 Creates the file name from path, name and extension.
323 void Assign(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
325 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
328 Makes this object refer to the current working directory on the specified
329 volume (or current volume if @a volume is empty).
333 static void AssignCwd(const wxString
& volume
= wxEmptyString
);
336 Sets this file name object to the given directory name.
337 The name and extension will be empty.
339 void AssignDir(const wxString
& dir
,
340 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
343 Sets this file name object to the home directory.
345 void AssignHomeDir();
348 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary file
349 and sets this object to the name of the file.
351 If a temporary file couldn't be created, the object is put into
352 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
354 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
);
357 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary
358 file name and open @a fileTemp with it.
360 If the file couldn't be opened, the object is put into
361 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
363 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
, wxFile
* fileTemp
);
366 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary
367 file name and open @a fileTemp with it.
369 If the file couldn't be opened, the object is put into
370 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
372 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
, wxFFile
* fileTemp
);
375 Reset all components to default, uninitialized state.
380 Removes the extension from the file name resulting in a
381 file name with no trailing dot.
383 @see SetExt(), SetEmptyExt()
388 Returns a temporary file name starting with the given @e prefix.
389 If the @a prefix is an absolute path, the temporary file is created in this
390 directory, otherwise it is created in the default system directory for the
391 temporary files or in the current directory.
393 If the function succeeds, the temporary file is actually created.
394 If @a fileTemp is not @NULL, this file will be opened using the name of
395 the temporary file. When possible, this is done in an atomic way ensuring that
396 no race condition occurs between the temporary file name generation and opening
397 it which could often lead to security compromise on the multiuser systems.
398 If @a fileTemp is @NULL, the file is only created, but not opened.
399 Under Unix, the temporary file will have read and write permissions for the
400 owner only to minimize the security problems.
403 Prefix to use for the temporary file name construction
405 The file to open or @NULL to just get the name
407 @return The full temporary file name or an empty string on error.
409 static wxString
CreateTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
,
410 wxFile
* fileTemp
= NULL
);
413 Returns @true if the directory with this name exists.
415 bool DirExists() const;
418 Returns @true if the directory with this name exists.
420 static bool DirExists(const wxString
& dir
);
423 Returns the object corresponding to the directory with the given name.
424 The @a dir parameter may have trailing path separator or not.
426 static wxFileName
DirName(const wxString
& dir
,
427 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
430 Returns @true if the file with this name exists.
434 bool FileExists() const;
437 Returns @true if the file with this name exists.
441 static bool FileExists(const wxString
& file
);
444 Returns the file name object corresponding to the given @e file. This
445 function exists mainly for symmetry with DirName().
447 static wxFileName
FileName(const wxString
& file
,
448 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
451 Retrieves the value of the current working directory on the specified volume.
452 If the volume is empty, the program's current working directory is returned for
455 @return The string containing the current working directory or an empty
460 static wxString
GetCwd(const wxString
& volume
= wxEmptyString
);
463 Returns the number of directories in the file name.
465 size_t GetDirCount() const;
468 Returns the directories in string array form.
470 const wxArrayString
& GetDirs() const;
473 Returns the file name extension.
475 wxString
GetExt() const;
478 Returns the characters that can't be used in filenames and directory names
479 for the specified format.
481 static wxString
GetForbiddenChars(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
484 Returns the canonical path format for this platform.
486 static wxPathFormat
GetFormat(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
489 Returns the full name (including extension but excluding directories).
491 wxString
GetFullName() const;
494 Returns the full path with name and extension.
496 wxString
GetFullPath(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
499 Returns the home directory.
501 static wxString
GetHomeDir();
504 Returns the size of the file in a human-readable form.
506 If the size could not be retrieved the @c failmsg string
507 is returned. In case of success, the returned string is
508 a floating-point number with @c precision decimal digits
509 followed by the size unit (B, kB, MB, GB, TB: respectively
510 bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes).
512 wxString
GetHumanReadableSize(const wxString
& failmsg
= "Not available",
513 int precision
= 1) const;
516 Returns the size of the given number of bytes in a human-readable form.
518 If @a bytes is ::wxInvalidSize or zero, then @a nullsize is returned.
520 In case of success, the returned string is a floating-point number with
521 @a precision decimal digits followed by the size unit (B, kB, MB, GB,
522 TB: respectively bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes).
524 static wxString
GetHumanReadableSize(const wxULongLong
& bytes
,
525 const wxString
& nullsize
= "Not available",
529 Return the long form of the path (returns identity on non-Windows platforms).
531 wxString
GetLongPath() const;
534 Returns the last time the file was last modified.
536 wxDateTime
GetModificationTime() const;
539 Returns the name part of the filename (without extension).
543 wxString
GetName() const;
546 Returns the path part of the filename (without the name or extension).
548 The possible flags values are:
550 - @b wxPATH_GET_VOLUME:
551 Return the path with the volume (does nothing for the filename formats
552 without volumes), otherwise the path without volume part is returned.
554 - @b wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR:
555 Return the path with the trailing separator, if this flag is not given
556 there will be no separator at the end of the path.
558 - @b wxPATH_NO_SEPARATOR:
559 Don't include the trailing separator in the returned string. This is
560 the default (the value of this flag is 0) and exists only for symmetry
561 with wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR.
563 wxString
GetPath(int flags
= wxPATH_GET_VOLUME
,
564 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
567 Returns the usually used path separator for this format.
568 For all formats but @c wxPATH_DOS there is only one path separator anyhow,
569 but for DOS there are two of them and the native one, i.e. the backslash
570 is returned by this method.
572 @see GetPathSeparators()
574 static wxUniChar
GetPathSeparator(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
577 Returns the string containing all the path separators for this format.
578 For all formats but @c wxPATH_DOS this string contains only one character
579 but for DOS and Windows both @c '/' and @c '\' may be used as separators.
581 @see GetPathSeparator()
583 static wxString
GetPathSeparators(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
586 Returns the string of characters which may terminate the path part.
587 This is the same as GetPathSeparators() except for VMS
588 path format where ] is used at the end of the path part.
590 static wxString
GetPathTerminators(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
593 Returns the path with the trailing separator, useful for appending the name
596 This is the same as calling
598 GetPath(wxPATH_GET_VOLUME | wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR, format)
601 wxString
GetPathWithSep(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
604 Return the short form of the path (returns identity on non-Windows platforms).
606 wxString
GetShortPath() const;
609 Returns the size of the file If the file does not exist or its size could
610 not be read (because e.g. the file is locked by another process) the returned
611 value is ::wxInvalidSize.
613 wxULongLong
GetSize() const;
616 Returns the size of the file If the file does not exist or its size could
617 not be read (because e.g. the file is locked by another process) the returned
618 value is ::wxInvalidSize.
620 const static wxULongLong
GetSize(const wxString
& filename
);
623 Returns the directory used for temporary files.
625 static wxString
GetTempDir();
628 Returns the last access, last modification and creation times.
629 The last access time is updated whenever the file is read or written
630 (or executed in the case of Windows), last modification time is only
631 changed when the file is written to.
632 Finally, the creation time is indeed the time when the file was created
633 under Windows and the inode change time under Unix (as it is impossible to
634 retrieve the real file creation time there anyhow) which can also be changed
635 by many operations after the file creation.
637 If no filename or extension is specified in this instance of wxFileName
638 (and therefore IsDir() returns @true) then this function will return the
639 directory times of the path specified by GetPath(), otherwise the file
640 times of the file specified by GetFullPath().
641 Any of the pointers may be @NULL if the corresponding time is not needed.
643 @return @true on success, @false if we failed to retrieve the times.
645 bool GetTimes(wxDateTime
* dtAccess
, wxDateTime
* dtMod
,
646 wxDateTime
* dtCreate
) const;
649 Returns the string containing the volume for this file name, empty if it
650 doesn't have one or if the file system doesn't support volumes at all
653 wxString
GetVolume() const;
656 Returns the string separating the volume from the path for this format.
658 static wxString
GetVolumeSeparator(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
661 This function builds a volume path string, for example "C:\\".
663 Implemented for the platforms which use drive letters, i.e. DOS, MSW
669 The drive letter, 'A' through 'Z' or 'a' through 'z'.
672 @c wxPATH_NO_SEPARATOR or @c wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR to omit or include
673 the trailing path separator, the default is to include it.
675 @return Volume path string.
677 static wxString
GetVolumeString(char drive
, int flags
= wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR
);
680 Returns @true if an extension is present.
685 Returns @true if a name is present.
687 bool HasName() const;
690 Returns @true if a volume specifier is present.
692 bool HasVolume() const;
695 Inserts a directory component before the zero-based position in the directory
696 list. Please see AppendDir() for important notes.
698 void InsertDir(size_t before
, const wxString
& dir
);
701 Returns @true if this filename is absolute.
703 bool IsAbsolute(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
706 Returns @true if the file names of this type are case-sensitive.
708 static bool IsCaseSensitive(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
711 Returns @true if this object represents a directory, @false otherwise
712 (i.e. if it is a file).
714 Note that this method doesn't test whether the directory or file really
715 exists, you should use DirExists() or FileExists() for this.
720 Returns @true if the directory component of this instance is an existing
721 directory and this process has read permissions on it. Read permissions
722 on a directory mean that you can list the directory contents but it
723 doesn't imply that you have read permissions on the files contained.
725 bool IsDirReadable() const;
728 Returns @true if the given @e dir is an existing directory and this process
729 has read permissions on it. Read permissions on a directory mean that you
730 can list the directory contents but it doesn't imply that you have read
731 permissions on the files contained.
733 static bool IsDirReadable(const wxString
& dir
);
736 Returns @true if the directory component of this instance
737 is an existing directory and this process has write permissions on it.
738 Write permissions on a directory mean that you can create new files in the
741 bool IsDirWritable() const;
744 Returns @true if the given @a dir is an existing directory and this
745 process has write permissions on it.
746 Write permissions on a directory mean that you can create new files in the
749 static bool IsDirWritable(const wxString
& dir
);
752 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has execute
755 bool IsFileExecutable() const;
758 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has execute
761 static bool IsFileExecutable(const wxString
& file
);
764 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has read
767 bool IsFileReadable() const;
770 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has read
773 static bool IsFileReadable(const wxString
& file
);
776 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has write
779 bool IsFileWritable() const;
782 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has write
785 static bool IsFileWritable(const wxString
& file
);
788 Returns @true if the filename is valid, @false if it is not initialized yet.
789 The assignment functions and Clear() may reset the object to the uninitialized,
790 invalid state (the former only do it on failure).
795 Returns @true if the char is a path separator for this format.
797 static bool IsPathSeparator(wxChar ch
,
798 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
801 Returns @true if this filename is not absolute.
803 bool IsRelative(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
806 On Mac OS, gets the common type and creator for the given extension.
808 static bool MacFindDefaultTypeAndCreator(const wxString
& ext
,
813 On Mac OS, registers application defined extensions and their default type
816 static void MacRegisterDefaultTypeAndCreator(const wxString
& ext
,
821 On Mac OS, looks up the appropriate type and creator from the registration
824 bool MacSetDefaultTypeAndCreator();
827 Make the file name absolute.
828 This is a shortcut for
830 wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_DOTS | wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE |
831 wxPATH_NORM_TILDE, cwd, format)
834 @see MakeRelativeTo(), Normalize(), IsAbsolute()
836 bool MakeAbsolute(const wxString
& cwd
= wxEmptyString
,
837 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
840 This function tries to put this file name in a form relative to
842 In other words, it returns the file name which should be used to access
843 this file if the current directory were pathBase.
846 The directory to use as root, current directory is used by default
848 The file name format, native by default
850 @return @true if the file name has been changed, @false if we failed to do
851 anything with it (currently this only happens if the file name
852 is on a volume different from the volume specified by @a pathBase).
856 bool MakeRelativeTo(const wxString
& pathBase
= wxEmptyString
,
857 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
863 The permissions for the newly created directory.
864 See the ::wxPosixPermissions enumeration for more info.
866 If the flags contain @c wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL flag, try to create each
867 directory in the path and also don't return an error if the target
868 directory already exists.
870 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully created, @false
873 bool Mkdir(int perm
= wxS_DIR_DEFAULT
, int flags
= 0);
879 The directory to create
881 The permissions for the newly created directory.
882 See the ::wxPosixPermissions enumeration for more info.
884 If the flags contain @c wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL flag, try to create each
885 directory in the path and also don't return an error if the target
886 directory already exists.
888 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully created, @false
891 static bool Mkdir(const wxString
& dir
, int perm
= wxS_DIR_DEFAULT
,
895 Normalize the path. With the default flags value, the path will be
896 made absolute, without any ".." and "." and all environment
897 variables will be expanded in it.
900 The kind of normalization to do with the file name. It can be
901 any or-combination of the ::wxPathNormalize enumeration values.
903 If not empty, this directory will be used instead of current
904 working directory in normalization (see @c wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE).
906 The file name format to use when processing the paths, native by default.
908 @return @true if normalization was successfully or @false otherwise.
910 bool Normalize(int flags
= wxPATH_NORM_ALL
,
911 const wxString
& cwd
= wxEmptyString
,
912 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
915 Prepends a directory to the file path.
916 Please see AppendDir() for important notes.
918 void PrependDir(const wxString
& dir
);
921 Removes the specified directory component from the path.
925 void RemoveDir(size_t pos
);
928 Removes last directory component from the path.
930 void RemoveLastDir();
933 If the path contains the value of the environment variable named @a envname
934 then this function replaces it with the string obtained from
935 wxString::Format(replacementFmtString, value_of_envname_variable).
937 This function is useful to make the path shorter or to make it dependent
938 from a certain environment variable.
939 Normalize() with @c wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS can perform the opposite of this
940 function (depending on the value of @a replacementFmtString).
942 The name and extension of this filename are not modified.
946 wxFileName fn("/usr/openwin/lib/someFile");
947 fn.ReplaceEnvVariable("OPENWINHOME");
948 // now fn.GetFullPath() == "$OPENWINHOME/lib/someFile"
953 @return @true if the operation was successful (which doesn't mean
954 that something was actually replaced, just that ::wxGetEnv
957 bool ReplaceEnvVariable(const wxString
& envname
,
958 const wxString
& replacementFmtString
= "$%s",
959 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
962 Replaces, if present in the path, the home directory for the given user
963 (see ::wxGetHomeDir) with a tilde (~).
965 Normalize() with @c wxPATH_NORM_TILDE performs the opposite of this
968 The name and extension of this filename are not modified.
972 @return @true if the operation was successful (which doesn't mean
973 that something was actually replaced, just that ::wxGetHomeDir
976 bool ReplaceHomeDir(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
980 Deletes the specified directory from the file system.
985 Deletes the specified directory from the file system.
987 static bool Rmdir(const wxString
& dir
);
990 Compares the filename using the rules of this platform.
992 bool SameAs(const wxFileName
& filepath
,
993 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
996 Changes the current working directory.
1001 Changes the current working directory.
1003 static bool SetCwd(const wxString
& cwd
);
1006 Sets the extension of the file name to be an empty extension.
1007 This is different from having no extension at all as the file
1008 name will have a trailing dot after a call to this method.
1010 @see SetExt(), ClearExt()
1015 Sets the extension of the file name.
1017 Setting an empty string as the extension will remove the extension
1018 resulting in a file name without a trailing dot, unlike a call to
1021 @see SetEmptyExt(), ClearExt()
1023 void SetExt(const wxString
& ext
);
1026 The full name is the file name and extension (but without the path).
1028 void SetFullName(const wxString
& fullname
);
1031 Sets the name part (without extension).
1035 void SetName(const wxString
& name
);
1038 Sets the file creation and last access/modification times (any of the pointers
1041 bool SetTimes(const wxDateTime
* dtAccess
,
1042 const wxDateTime
* dtMod
,
1043 const wxDateTime
* dtCreate
);
1046 Sets the volume specifier.
1048 void SetVolume(const wxString
& volume
);
1052 This function splits a full file name into components: the volume (with the
1053 first version) path (including the volume in the second version), the base name
1056 Any of the output parameters (@e volume, @e path, @a name or @e ext) may
1057 be @NULL if you are not interested in the value of a particular component.
1058 Also, @a fullpath may be empty on entry.
1059 On return, @a path contains the file path (without the trailing separator),
1060 @a name contains the file name and @a ext contains the file extension
1061 without leading dot. All three of them may be empty if the corresponding
1062 component is. The old contents of the strings pointed to by these parameters
1063 will be overwritten in any case (if the pointers are not @NULL).
1065 Note that for a filename "foo." the extension is present, as indicated by the
1066 trailing dot, but empty. If you need to cope with such cases, you should use
1067 @a hasExt instead of relying on testing whether @a ext is empty or not.
1069 static void SplitPath(const wxString
& fullpath
, wxString
* volume
,
1074 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1075 static void SplitPath(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1080 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1081 static void SplitPath(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1085 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1089 Splits the given @a fullpath into the volume part (which may be empty) and
1090 the pure path part, not containing any volume.
1094 static void SplitVolume(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1097 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1100 Sets the access and modification times to the current moment.
1105 Returns @true if the filenames are different. The string @e filenames
1106 is interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1108 bool operator!=(const wxFileName
& filename
) const;
1111 Returns @true if the filenames are different. The string @e filenames
1112 is interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1114 bool operator!=(const wxString
& filename
) const;
1117 Returns @true if the filenames are equal. The string @e filenames is
1118 interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1120 bool operator==(const wxFileName
& filename
) const;
1123 Returns @true if the filenames are equal. The string @e filenames is
1124 interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1126 bool operator==(const wxString
& filename
) const;
1129 Assigns the new value to this filename object.
1131 wxFileName
& operator=(const wxFileName
& filename
);
1134 Assigns the new value to this filename object.
1136 wxFileName
& operator=(const wxString
& filename
);