update minimum GTK2 version requirement to 2.6

[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / dir.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/dir.h b/interface/wx/dir.h
index 1b9ba583135fc1b0f51042109ec4ed835b8ed568..3eafb364574ff80382a7007b7a2dfb2e0ca360e3 100644 (file)
--- a/interface/wx/dir.h
+++ b/interface/wx/dir.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // Purpose:     interface of wxDir and wxDirTraverser
 // Author:      wxWidgets team
 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
-// Licence:     wxWindows license
+// Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 /**
@@ -218,11 +218,31 @@ public:
                   int flags = wxDIR_DEFAULT) const;
 
     /**
-        Returns the name of the directory itself. The returned string does not
-        have the trailing path separator (slash or backslash).
+        Returns the name of the directory itself.
+
+        The returned string does not have the trailing path separator (slash or
+        backslash).
+
+        Notice that in spite of this the last character of the returned string
+        can still be the path separator if this directory is the root one.
+        Because of this, don't append ::wxFILE_SEP_PATH to the returned value
+        if you do need a slash-terminated directory name but use
+        GetNameWithSep() instead to avoid having duplicate consecutive slashes.
     */
     wxString GetName() const;
 
+    /**
+        Returns the name of the directory with the path separator appended.
+
+        The last character of the returned string is always ::wxFILE_SEP_PATH
+        unless the string is empty, indicating that this directory is invalid.
+
+        @see GetName()
+
+        @since 2.9.4
+     */
+    wxString GetNameWithSep() const;
+
     /**
         Continue enumerating files which satisfy the criteria specified by the
         last call to GetFirst().
@@ -233,7 +253,7 @@ public:
         Returns the size (in bytes) of all files recursively found in @c dir or
         @c wxInvalidSize in case of error.
 
-        In case it happens that while traversing folders a file's size can not
+        In case it happens that while traversing folders a file's size cannot
         be read, that file is added to the @a filesSkipped array, if not @NULL,
         and then skipped. This usually happens with some special folders which
         are locked by the operating system or by another process. Remember that
@@ -266,6 +286,15 @@ public:
     */
     bool IsOpened() const;
 
+    /**
+        Creates a directory.
+        
+        This is just an alias for wxFileName::Mkdir(); refer to that function
+        for more info.
+    */
+    static bool Make(const wxString &dir, int perm = wxS_DIR_DEFAULT,
+                     int flags = 0);
+
     /**
         Open the directory for enumerating, returns @true on success or @false
         if an error occurred.
@@ -273,24 +302,36 @@ public:
     bool Open(const wxString& dir);
 
     /**
-        Enumerate all files and directories under the given directory
-        recursively calling the element of the provided wxDirTraverser object
-        for each of them.
-
-        More precisely, the function will really recurse into subdirectories if
-        @a flags contains ::wxDIR_DIRS flag. It will ignore the files (but
-        still possibly recurse into subdirectories) if ::wxDIR_FILES flag is
-        given.
-        See ::wxDirFlags for the list of the possible flags.
+        Removes a directory.
+        
+        This is just an alias for wxFileName::Rmdir(); refer to that function
+        for more info.
+    */
+    static bool Remove(const wxString &dir, int flags = 0);
+    
+    /**
+        Enumerate all files and directories under the given directory.
+
+        If @a flags contains ::wxDIR_DIRS this enumeration is recursive, i.e.
+        all the subdirectories of the given one and the files inside them will
+        be traversed. Otherwise only the files in this directory itself are.
+
+        If @a flags doesn't contain ::wxDIR_FILES then only subdirectories are
+        examined but not normal files. It doesn't make sense to not specify
+        either ::wxDIR_DIRS or ::wxDIR_FILES and usually both of them should be
+        specified, as is the case by default.
 
         For each directory found, @ref wxDirTraverser::OnDir() "sink.OnDir()"
         is called and @ref wxDirTraverser::OnFile() "sink.OnFile()" is called
         for every file. Depending on the return value, the enumeration may
-        continue or stop.
+        continue or stop. If entering a subdirectory fails, @ref
+        wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() "sink.OnOpenError()" is called.
 
         The function returns the total number of files found or @c "(size_t)-1"
         on error.
 
+        See ::wxDirFlags for the full list of the possible flags.
+
         @see GetAllFiles()
     */
     size_t Traverse(wxDirTraverser& sink,