- Normalize the path. With the default flags value, the path will be
- made absolute, without any ".." and "." and all environment
- variables will be expanded in it.
+ Normalize the path.
+
+ With the default flags value, the path will be made absolute, without
+ any ".." and "." and all environment variables will be expanded in it.
+
+ Notice that in some rare cases normalizing a valid path may result in
+ an invalid wxFileName object. E.g. normalizing "./" path using
+ wxPATH_NORM_DOTS but not wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE will result in a
+ completely empty and thus invalid object. As long as there is a non
+ empty file name the result of normalization will be valid however.