docs/doxygen/overviews/file.h

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   2 // Name:        file.h
   3 // Purpose:     topic overview
   4 // Author:      wxWidgets team
   5 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   6 // Licence:     wxWindows license
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   9 /**
  10
  11  @page overview_file File Classes and Functions
  12
  13  Classes: wxFile, wxDir, wxTempFile,  wxTextFile
  14
  15  Functions: see @ref page_func_cat_file.
  16
  17  wxWidgets provides some functions and classes to facilitate working with files.
  18  As usual, the accent is put on cross-platform features which explains, for
  19  example, the wxTextFile class which may be used to convert
  20  between different types of text files (DOS/Unix/Mac).
  21
  22  wxFile may be used for low-level IO. It contains all the usual functions to work
  23  with files (opening/closing, reading/writing, seeking, and so on) but compared with
  24  using standard C functions, has error checking (in case of an error a message
  25  is logged using wxLog facilities) and closes the file
  26  automatically in the destructor which may be quite convenient.
  27
  28  wxTempFile is a very small file designed to make replacing the files contents
  29  safer - see its documentation for more details.
  30
  31  wxTextFile is a general purpose class for working with small text files on line
  32  by line basis. It is especially well suited for working with configuration files
  33  and program source files. It can be also used to work with files with "non
  34  native" line termination characters and write them as "native" files if needed
  35  (in fact, the files may be written in any format).
  36
  37  wxDir is a helper class for enumerating the files or subdirectories of a
  38  directory. It may be used to enumerate all files, only files satisfying the
  39  given template mask or only non-hidden files.
  40
  41 */
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