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 ".".
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 Flags for wxFileName::Rmdir().
61 /// Delete the specified directory and its subdirectories if they are empty.
62 wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL
= 1,
65 Delete the specified directory and all the files and subdirectories in it
68 This flag is obviously @b dangerous and should be used with care and
69 after asking the user for confirmation.
71 wxPATH_RMDIR_RECURSIVE
= 2
75 The return value of wxFileName::GetSize() in case of error.
77 wxULongLong wxInvalidSize
;
83 wxFileName encapsulates a file name.
85 This class serves two purposes: first, it provides the functions to split the
86 file names into components and to recombine these components in the full file
87 name which can then be passed to the OS file functions
88 (and @ref group_funcmacro_file "wxWidgets functions" wrapping them).
89 Second, it includes the functions for working with the files itself. Note that
90 to change the file data you should use wxFile class instead.
91 wxFileName provides functions for working with the file attributes.
93 When working with directory names (i.e. without filename and extension)
94 make sure not to misuse the file name part of this class with the last
95 directory. Instead initialize the wxFileName instance like this:
98 wxFileName dirname( "C:\mydir", "" );
99 MyMethod( dirname.GetPath() );
102 The same can be done using the static method wxFileName::DirName():
105 wxFileName dirname = wxFileName::DirName( "C:\mydir" );
106 MyMethod( dirname.GetPath() );
109 Accordingly, methods dealing with directories or directory names like
110 wxFileName::IsDirReadable() use wxFileName::GetPath() whereas methods dealing
111 with file names like wxFileName::IsFileReadable() use wxFileName::GetFullPath().
113 If it is not known wether a string contains a directory name or a complete
114 file name (such as when interpreting user input) you need to use the static
115 function wxFileName::DirExists() (or its identical variants wxDir::Exists() and
116 wxDirExists()) and construct the wxFileName instance accordingly.
117 This will only work if the directory actually exists, of course:
121 // get input from user
124 if (wxDirExists(user_input))
125 fname.AssignDir( user_input );
127 fname.Assign( user_input );
130 Please note that many wxFileName methods accept the path format argument
131 which is by @c wxPATH_NATIVE by default meaning to use the path format
132 native for the current platform.
133 The path format affects the operation of wxFileName functions in several ways:
134 first and foremost, it defines the path separator character to use, but it
135 also affects other things such as whether the path has the drive part or not.
136 See wxPathFormat for more info.
139 @section filename_format File name format
141 wxFileName currently supports the file names in the Unix, DOS/Windows,
142 Mac OS and VMS formats. Although these formats are quite different,
143 wxFileName tries to treat them all in the same generic way.
144 It supposes that all file names consist of the following parts: the volume
145 (also known as drive under Windows or device under VMS), the path which is
146 a sequence of directory names separated by the path separators and the full
147 filename itself which, in turn, is composed from the base file name and the
148 extension. All of the individual components of the file name may be empty
149 and, for example, the volume name is always empty under Unix, but if they
150 are all empty simultaneously, the filename object is considered to be in an
151 invalid state and wxFileName::IsOk() returns false for it.
153 File names can be case-sensitive or not, the function wxFileName::IsCaseSensitive()
154 allows to determine this. The rules for determining whether the file name is
155 absolute or relative also depend on the file name format and the only portable way
156 to answer this question is to use wxFileName::IsAbsolute() or wxFileName::IsRelative()
159 Note that on Windows,"X:" refers to the current working directory on drive X.
160 Therefore, a wxFileName instance constructed from for example "X:dir/file.ext"
161 treats the portion beyond drive separator as being relative to that directory.
162 To ensure that the filename is absolute, you may use wxFileName::MakeAbsolute().
163 There is also an inverse function wxFileName::MakeRelativeTo() which undoes
164 what wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_DOTS) does.
165 Other functions returning information about the file format provided by this
166 class are wxFileName::GetVolumeSeparator(), wxFileName::IsPathSeparator().
169 @section filename_construction File name construction
171 You can initialize a wxFileName instance using one of the following functions:
173 @li wxFileName::wxFileName()
174 @li wxFileName::Assign()
175 @li wxFileName::AssignCwd()
176 @li wxFileName::AssignDir()
177 @li wxFileName::AssignHomeDir()
178 @li wxFileName::AssignTempFileName()
179 @li wxFileName::DirName()
180 @li wxFileName::FileName()
181 @li wxFileName::operator=()
184 @section filename_tests File name tests
186 Before doing other tests, you should use wxFileName::IsOk() to verify that
187 the filename is well defined. If it is, FileExists() can be used to test whether
188 a file with such name exists and wxFileName::DirExists() can be used to test
189 for directory existence.
190 File names should be compared using the wxFileName::SameAs() method or
191 wxFileName::operator==(). For testing basic access modes, you can use:
193 @li wxFileName::IsDirWritable()
194 @li wxFileName::IsDirReadable()
195 @li wxFileName::IsFileWritable()
196 @li wxFileName::IsFileReadable()
197 @li wxFileName::IsFileExecutable()
200 @section filename_components File name components
202 These functions allow to examine and modify the individual directories
205 @li wxFileName::AppendDir()
206 @li wxFileName::InsertDir()
207 @li wxFileName::GetDirCount()
208 @li wxFileName::PrependDir()
209 @li wxFileName::RemoveDir()
210 @li wxFileName::RemoveLastDir()
212 To change the components of the file name individually you can use the
215 @li wxFileName::GetExt()
216 @li wxFileName::GetName()
217 @li wxFileName::GetVolume()
218 @li wxFileName::HasExt()
219 @li wxFileName::HasName()
220 @li wxFileName::HasVolume()
221 @li wxFileName::SetExt()
222 @li wxFileName::ClearExt()
223 @li wxFileName::SetEmptyExt()
224 @li wxFileName::SetName()
225 @li wxFileName::SetVolume()
227 You can initialize a wxFileName instance using one of the following functions:
230 @section filename_operations File name operations
232 These methods allow to work with the file creation, access and modification
233 times. Note that not all filesystems under all platforms implement these times
234 in the same way. For example, the access time under Windows has a resolution of
235 one day (so it is really the access date and not time). The access time may be
236 updated when the file is executed or not depending on the platform.
238 @li wxFileName::GetModificationTime()
239 @li wxFileName::GetTimes()
240 @li wxFileName::SetTimes()
241 @li wxFileName::Touch()
243 Other file system operations functions are:
245 @li wxFileName::Mkdir()
246 @li wxFileName::Rmdir()
263 wxFileName(const wxFileName
& filename
);
266 Constructor taking a full filename.
268 If it terminates with a '/', a directory path is constructed
269 (the name will be empty), otherwise a file name and extension
270 are extracted from it.
272 wxFileName(const wxString
& fullpath
,
273 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
276 Constructor a directory name and file name.
278 wxFileName(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
279 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
282 Constructor from a directory name, base file name and extension.
284 wxFileName(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
286 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
289 Constructor from a volume name, a directory name, base file name and extension.
291 wxFileName(const wxString
& volume
, const wxString
& path
,
292 const wxString
& name
,
294 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
297 Appends a directory component to the path. This component should contain a
298 single directory name level, i.e. not contain any path or volume separators nor
299 should it be empty, otherwise the function does nothing (and generates an
300 assert failure in debug build).
302 void AppendDir(const wxString
& dir
);
305 Creates the file name from another filename object.
307 void Assign(const wxFileName
& filepath
);
310 Creates the file name from a full file name with a path.
312 void Assign(const wxString
& fullpath
,
313 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
316 Creates the file name from volumne, path, name and extension.
318 void Assign(const wxString
& volume
, const wxString
& path
,
319 const wxString
& name
,
322 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
325 Creates the file name from volumne, path, name and extension.
327 void Assign(const wxString
& volume
, const wxString
& path
,
328 const wxString
& name
,
330 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
333 Creates the file name from file path and file name.
335 void Assign(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
336 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
339 Creates the file name from path, name and extension.
341 void Assign(const wxString
& path
, const wxString
& name
,
343 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
346 Makes this object refer to the current working directory on the specified
347 volume (or current volume if @a volume is empty).
351 void AssignCwd(const wxString
& volume
= wxEmptyString
);
354 Sets this file name object to the given directory name.
355 The name and extension will be empty.
357 void AssignDir(const wxString
& dir
,
358 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
361 Sets this file name object to the home directory.
363 void AssignHomeDir();
366 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary file
367 and sets this object to the name of the file.
369 If a temporary file couldn't be created, the object is put into
370 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
372 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
);
375 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary
376 file name and open @a fileTemp with it.
378 If the file couldn't be opened, the object is put into
379 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
381 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
, wxFile
* fileTemp
);
384 The function calls CreateTempFileName() to create a temporary
385 file name and open @a fileTemp with it.
387 If the file couldn't be opened, the object is put into
388 an invalid state (see IsOk()).
390 void AssignTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
, wxFFile
* fileTemp
);
393 Reset all components to default, uninitialized state.
398 Removes the extension from the file name resulting in a
399 file name with no trailing dot.
401 @see SetExt(), SetEmptyExt()
407 Returns a temporary file name starting with the given @e prefix.
408 If the @a prefix is an absolute path, the temporary file is created in this
409 directory, otherwise it is created in the default system directory for the
410 temporary files or in the current directory.
412 If the function succeeds, the temporary file is actually created.
413 If @a fileTemp is not @NULL, this file will be opened using the name of
414 the temporary file. When possible, this is done in an atomic way ensuring that
415 no race condition occurs between the temporary file name generation and opening
416 it which could often lead to security compromise on the multiuser systems.
417 If @a fileTemp is @NULL, the file is only created, but not opened.
418 Under Unix, the temporary file will have read and write permissions for the
419 owner only to minimize the security problems.
422 Prefix to use for the temporary file name construction
424 The file to open or @NULL to just get the name
426 @return The full temporary file name or an empty string on error.
428 static wxString
CreateTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
,
429 wxFile
* fileTemp
= NULL
);
430 static wxString
CreateTempFileName(const wxString
& prefix
,
431 wxFFile
* fileTemp
= NULL
);
435 Returns @true if the directory with this name exists.
437 bool DirExists() const;
440 Returns @true if the directory with this name exists.
442 static bool DirExists(const wxString
& dir
);
445 Returns the object corresponding to the directory with the given name.
446 The @a dir parameter may have trailing path separator or not.
448 static wxFileName
DirName(const wxString
& dir
,
449 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
452 Returns @true if the file with this name exists.
456 bool FileExists() const;
459 Returns @true if the file with this name exists.
463 static bool FileExists(const wxString
& file
);
466 Returns the file name object corresponding to the given @e file. This
467 function exists mainly for symmetry with DirName().
469 static wxFileName
FileName(const wxString
& file
,
470 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
473 Retrieves the value of the current working directory on the specified volume.
474 If the volume is empty, the program's current working directory is returned for
477 @return The string containing the current working directory or an empty
482 static wxString
GetCwd(const wxString
& volume
= wxEmptyString
);
485 Returns the number of directories in the file name.
487 size_t GetDirCount() const;
490 Returns the directories in string array form.
492 const wxArrayString
& GetDirs() const;
495 Returns the file name extension.
497 wxString
GetExt() const;
500 Returns the characters that can't be used in filenames and directory names
501 for the specified format.
503 static wxString
GetForbiddenChars(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
506 Returns the canonical path format for this platform.
508 static wxPathFormat
GetFormat(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
511 Returns the full name (including extension but excluding directories).
513 wxString
GetFullName() const;
516 Returns the full path with name and extension.
518 wxString
GetFullPath(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
521 Returns the home directory.
523 static wxString
GetHomeDir();
526 Returns the size of the file in a human-readable form.
528 If the size could not be retrieved the @c failmsg string
529 is returned. In case of success, the returned string is
530 a floating-point number with @c precision decimal digits
531 followed by the size unit (B, kB, MB, GB, TB: respectively
532 bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes).
534 wxString
GetHumanReadableSize(const wxString
& failmsg
= "Not available",
535 int precision
= 1) const;
538 Returns the size of the given number of bytes in a human-readable form.
540 If @a bytes is ::wxInvalidSize or zero, then @a nullsize is returned.
542 In case of success, the returned string is a floating-point number with
543 @a precision decimal digits followed by the size unit (B, kB, MB, GB,
544 TB: respectively bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes).
546 static wxString
GetHumanReadableSize(const wxULongLong
& bytes
,
547 const wxString
& nullsize
= "Not available",
551 Return the long form of the path (returns identity on non-Windows platforms).
553 wxString
GetLongPath() const;
556 Returns the last time the file was last modified.
558 wxDateTime
GetModificationTime() const;
561 Returns the name part of the filename (without extension).
565 wxString
GetName() const;
568 Returns the path part of the filename (without the name or extension).
570 The possible flags values are:
572 - @b wxPATH_GET_VOLUME:
573 Return the path with the volume (does nothing for the filename formats
574 without volumes), otherwise the path without volume part is returned.
576 - @b wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR:
577 Return the path with the trailing separator, if this flag is not given
578 there will be no separator at the end of the path.
580 - @b wxPATH_NO_SEPARATOR:
581 Don't include the trailing separator in the returned string. This is
582 the default (the value of this flag is 0) and exists only for symmetry
583 with wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR.
585 wxString
GetPath(int flags
= wxPATH_GET_VOLUME
,
586 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
589 Returns the usually used path separator for this format.
590 For all formats but @c wxPATH_DOS there is only one path separator anyhow,
591 but for DOS there are two of them and the native one, i.e. the backslash
592 is returned by this method.
594 @see GetPathSeparators()
596 static wxUniChar
GetPathSeparator(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
599 Returns the string containing all the path separators for this format.
600 For all formats but @c wxPATH_DOS this string contains only one character
601 but for DOS and Windows both @c '/' and @c '\' may be used as separators.
603 @see GetPathSeparator()
605 static wxString
GetPathSeparators(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
608 Returns the string of characters which may terminate the path part.
609 This is the same as GetPathSeparators() except for VMS
610 path format where ] is used at the end of the path part.
612 static wxString
GetPathTerminators(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
615 Returns the path with the trailing separator, useful for appending the name
618 This is the same as calling
620 GetPath(wxPATH_GET_VOLUME | wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR, format)
623 wxString
GetPathWithSep(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
626 Return the short form of the path (returns identity on non-Windows platforms).
628 wxString
GetShortPath() const;
631 Returns the size of the file If the file does not exist or its size could
632 not be read (because e.g. the file is locked by another process) the returned
633 value is ::wxInvalidSize.
635 wxULongLong
GetSize() const;
638 Returns the size of the file If the file does not exist or its size could
639 not be read (because e.g. the file is locked by another process) the returned
640 value is ::wxInvalidSize.
642 static wxULongLong
GetSize(const wxString
& filename
);
645 Returns the directory used for temporary files.
647 static wxString
GetTempDir();
650 Returns the last access, last modification and creation times.
651 The last access time is updated whenever the file is read or written
652 (or executed in the case of Windows), last modification time is only
653 changed when the file is written to.
654 Finally, the creation time is indeed the time when the file was created
655 under Windows and the inode change time under Unix (as it is impossible to
656 retrieve the real file creation time there anyhow) which can also be changed
657 by many operations after the file creation.
659 If no filename or extension is specified in this instance of wxFileName
660 (and therefore IsDir() returns @true) then this function will return the
661 directory times of the path specified by GetPath(), otherwise the file
662 times of the file specified by GetFullPath().
663 Any of the pointers may be @NULL if the corresponding time is not needed.
665 @return @true on success, @false if we failed to retrieve the times.
667 bool GetTimes(wxDateTime
* dtAccess
, wxDateTime
* dtMod
,
668 wxDateTime
* dtCreate
) const;
671 Returns the string containing the volume for this file name, empty if it
672 doesn't have one or if the file system doesn't support volumes at all
675 wxString
GetVolume() const;
678 Returns the string separating the volume from the path for this format.
680 static wxString
GetVolumeSeparator(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
683 This function builds a volume path string, for example "C:\\".
685 Implemented for the platforms which use drive letters, i.e. DOS, MSW
691 The drive letter, 'A' through 'Z' or 'a' through 'z'.
694 @c wxPATH_NO_SEPARATOR or @c wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR to omit or include
695 the trailing path separator, the default is to include it.
697 @return Volume path string.
699 static wxString
GetVolumeString(char drive
, int flags
= wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR
);
702 Returns @true if an extension is present.
707 Returns @true if a name is present.
709 bool HasName() const;
712 Returns @true if a volume specifier is present.
714 bool HasVolume() const;
717 Inserts a directory component before the zero-based position in the directory
718 list. Please see AppendDir() for important notes.
720 void InsertDir(size_t before
, const wxString
& dir
);
723 Returns @true if this filename is absolute.
725 bool IsAbsolute(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
728 Returns @true if the file names of this type are case-sensitive.
730 static bool IsCaseSensitive(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
733 Returns @true if this object represents a directory, @false otherwise
734 (i.e. if it is a file).
736 Note that this method doesn't test whether the directory or file really
737 exists, you should use DirExists() or FileExists() for this.
742 Returns @true if the directory component of this instance is an existing
743 directory and this process has read permissions on it. Read permissions
744 on a directory mean that you can list the directory contents but it
745 doesn't imply that you have read permissions on the files contained.
747 bool IsDirReadable() const;
750 Returns @true if the given @e dir is an existing directory and this process
751 has read permissions on it. Read permissions on a directory mean that you
752 can list the directory contents but it doesn't imply that you have read
753 permissions on the files contained.
755 static bool IsDirReadable(const wxString
& dir
);
758 Returns @true if the directory component of this instance
759 is an existing directory and this process has write permissions on it.
760 Write permissions on a directory mean that you can create new files in the
763 bool IsDirWritable() const;
766 Returns @true if the given @a dir is an existing directory and this
767 process has write permissions on it.
768 Write permissions on a directory mean that you can create new files in the
771 static bool IsDirWritable(const wxString
& dir
);
774 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has execute
777 bool IsFileExecutable() const;
780 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has execute
783 static bool IsFileExecutable(const wxString
& file
);
786 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has read
789 bool IsFileReadable() const;
792 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has read
795 static bool IsFileReadable(const wxString
& file
);
798 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has write
801 bool IsFileWritable() const;
804 Returns @true if a file with this name exists and if this process has write
807 static bool IsFileWritable(const wxString
& file
);
810 Returns @true if the filename is valid, @false if it is not initialized yet.
811 The assignment functions and Clear() may reset the object to the uninitialized,
812 invalid state (the former only do it on failure).
817 Returns @true if the char is a path separator for this format.
819 static bool IsPathSeparator(wxChar ch
,
820 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
823 Returns @true if the volume part of the path is a unique volume name.
825 This function will always return @false if the path format is not
828 Unique volume names are Windows volume identifiers which remain the same
829 regardless of where the volume is actually mounted. Example of a path
830 using a volume name could be
832 \\?\Volume{8089d7d7-d0ac-11db-9dd0-806d6172696f}\Program Files\setup.exe
837 static bool IsMSWUniqueVolumeNamePath(const wxString
& path
,
838 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
841 Returns @true if this filename is not absolute.
843 bool IsRelative(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
846 On Mac OS, gets the common type and creator for the given extension.
848 static bool MacFindDefaultTypeAndCreator(const wxString
& ext
,
853 On Mac OS, registers application defined extensions and their default type
856 static void MacRegisterDefaultTypeAndCreator(const wxString
& ext
,
861 On Mac OS, looks up the appropriate type and creator from the registration
864 bool MacSetDefaultTypeAndCreator();
867 Make the file name absolute.
868 This is a shortcut for
870 wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_DOTS | wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE |
871 wxPATH_NORM_TILDE, cwd, format)
874 @see MakeRelativeTo(), Normalize(), IsAbsolute()
876 bool MakeAbsolute(const wxString
& cwd
= wxEmptyString
,
877 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
880 This function tries to put this file name in a form relative to
882 In other words, it returns the file name which should be used to access
883 this file if the current directory were pathBase.
886 The directory to use as root, current directory is used by default
888 The file name format, native by default
890 @return @true if the file name has been changed, @false if we failed to do
891 anything with it (currently this only happens if the file name
892 is on a volume different from the volume specified by @a pathBase).
896 bool MakeRelativeTo(const wxString
& pathBase
= wxEmptyString
,
897 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
903 The permissions for the newly created directory.
904 See the ::wxPosixPermissions enumeration for more info.
906 If the flags contain @c wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL flag, try to create each
907 directory in the path and also don't return an error if the target
908 directory already exists.
910 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully created, @false
913 bool Mkdir(int perm
= wxS_DIR_DEFAULT
, int flags
= 0) const;
919 The directory to create
921 The permissions for the newly created directory.
922 See the ::wxPosixPermissions enumeration for more info.
924 If the flags contain @c wxPATH_MKDIR_FULL flag, try to create each
925 directory in the path and also don't return an error if the target
926 directory already exists.
928 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully created, @false
931 static bool Mkdir(const wxString
& dir
, int perm
= wxS_DIR_DEFAULT
,
935 Normalize the path. With the default flags value, the path will be
936 made absolute, without any ".." and "." and all environment
937 variables will be expanded in it.
940 The kind of normalization to do with the file name. It can be
941 any or-combination of the ::wxPathNormalize enumeration values.
943 If not empty, this directory will be used instead of current
944 working directory in normalization (see @c wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE).
946 The file name format to use when processing the paths, native by default.
948 @return @true if normalization was successfully or @false otherwise.
950 bool Normalize(int flags
= wxPATH_NORM_ALL
,
951 const wxString
& cwd
= wxEmptyString
,
952 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
955 Prepends a directory to the file path.
956 Please see AppendDir() for important notes.
958 void PrependDir(const wxString
& dir
);
961 Removes the specified directory component from the path.
965 void RemoveDir(size_t pos
);
968 Removes last directory component from the path.
970 void RemoveLastDir();
973 If the path contains the value of the environment variable named @a envname
974 then this function replaces it with the string obtained from
975 wxString::Format(replacementFmtString, value_of_envname_variable).
977 This function is useful to make the path shorter or to make it dependent
978 from a certain environment variable.
979 Normalize() with @c wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS can perform the opposite of this
980 function (depending on the value of @a replacementFmtString).
982 The name and extension of this filename are not modified.
986 wxFileName fn("/usr/openwin/lib/someFile");
987 fn.ReplaceEnvVariable("OPENWINHOME");
988 // now fn.GetFullPath() == "$OPENWINHOME/lib/someFile"
993 @return @true if the operation was successful (which doesn't mean
994 that something was actually replaced, just that ::wxGetEnv
997 bool ReplaceEnvVariable(const wxString
& envname
,
998 const wxString
& replacementFmtString
= "$%s",
999 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1002 Replaces, if present in the path, the home directory for the given user
1003 (see ::wxGetHomeDir) with a tilde (~).
1005 Normalize() with @c wxPATH_NORM_TILDE performs the opposite of this
1008 The name and extension of this filename are not modified.
1012 @return @true if the operation was successful (which doesn't mean
1013 that something was actually replaced, just that ::wxGetHomeDir
1016 bool ReplaceHomeDir(wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1020 Deletes the specified directory from the file system.
1023 Can contain one of wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL or wxPATH_RMDIR_RECURSIVE. By
1024 default contains neither so the directory will not be removed
1027 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully deleted, @false
1030 bool Rmdir(int flags
= 0) const;
1033 Deletes the specified directory from the file system.
1036 The directory to delete
1038 Can contain one of wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL or wxPATH_RMDIR_RECURSIVE. By
1039 default contains neither so the directory will not be removed
1042 @return Returns @true if the directory was successfully deleted, @false
1045 static bool Rmdir(const wxString
& dir
, int flags
= 0);
1048 Compares the filename using the rules of this platform.
1050 bool SameAs(const wxFileName
& filepath
,
1051 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
) const;
1054 Changes the current working directory.
1056 bool SetCwd() const;
1059 Changes the current working directory.
1061 static bool SetCwd(const wxString
& cwd
);
1064 Sets the extension of the file name to be an empty extension.
1065 This is different from having no extension at all as the file
1066 name will have a trailing dot after a call to this method.
1068 @see SetExt(), ClearExt()
1073 Sets the extension of the file name.
1075 Setting an empty string as the extension will remove the extension
1076 resulting in a file name without a trailing dot, unlike a call to
1079 @see SetEmptyExt(), ClearExt()
1081 void SetExt(const wxString
& ext
);
1084 The full name is the file name and extension (but without the path).
1086 void SetFullName(const wxString
& fullname
);
1089 Sets the name part (without extension).
1093 void SetName(const wxString
& name
);
1098 The @a path argument includes both the path (and the volume, if
1099 supported by @a format) and the name and extension.
1103 void SetPath(const wxString
& path
, wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1106 Sets the file creation and last access/modification times (any of the pointers
1109 bool SetTimes(const wxDateTime
* dtAccess
,
1110 const wxDateTime
* dtMod
,
1111 const wxDateTime
* dtCreate
) const;
1114 Sets the volume specifier.
1116 void SetVolume(const wxString
& volume
);
1120 This function splits a full file name into components: the volume (with the
1121 first version) path (including the volume in the second version), the base name
1124 Any of the output parameters (@e volume, @e path, @a name or @e ext) may
1125 be @NULL if you are not interested in the value of a particular component.
1126 Also, @a fullpath may be empty on entry.
1127 On return, @a path contains the file path (without the trailing separator),
1128 @a name contains the file name and @a ext contains the file extension
1129 without leading dot. All three of them may be empty if the corresponding
1130 component is. The old contents of the strings pointed to by these parameters
1131 will be overwritten in any case (if the pointers are not @NULL).
1133 Note that for a filename "foo." the extension is present, as indicated by the
1134 trailing dot, but empty. If you need to cope with such cases, you should use
1135 @a hasExt instead of relying on testing whether @a ext is empty or not.
1137 static void SplitPath(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1142 bool* hasExt
= NULL
,
1143 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1144 static void SplitPath(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1149 wxPathFormat format
);
1150 static void SplitPath(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1154 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1158 Splits the given @a fullpath into the volume part (which may be empty) and
1159 the pure path part, not containing any volume.
1163 static void SplitVolume(const wxString
& fullpath
,
1166 wxPathFormat format
= wxPATH_NATIVE
);
1170 Strip the file extension.
1172 This function does more than just removing everything after the last
1173 period from the string, for example it will return the string ".vimrc"
1174 unchanged because the part after the period is not an extension but the
1175 file name in this case. You can use wxString::BeforeLast() to really
1176 get just the part before the last period (but notice that that function
1177 returns empty string if period is not present at all unlike this
1178 function which returns the @a fullname unchanged in this case).
1181 File path including name and, optionally, extension.
1184 File path without extension
1188 static wxString
StripExtension(const wxString
& fullname
);
1191 Sets the access and modification times to the current moment.
1196 Returns @true if the filenames are different. The string @e filenames
1197 is interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1199 bool operator!=(const wxFileName
& filename
) const;
1202 Returns @true if the filenames are different. The string @e filenames
1203 is interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1205 bool operator!=(const wxString
& filename
) const;
1208 Returns @true if the filenames are equal. The string @e filenames is
1209 interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1211 bool operator==(const wxFileName
& filename
) const;
1214 Returns @true if the filenames are equal. The string @e filenames is
1215 interpreted as a path in the native filename format.
1217 bool operator==(const wxString
& filename
) const;
1220 Assigns the new value to this filename object.
1222 wxFileName
& operator=(const wxFileName
& filename
);
1225 Assigns the new value to this filename object.
1227 wxFileName
& operator=(const wxString
& filename
);