AIX patches from Hans-Joachim Baader <hans-joachim.baader@cjt.de>

[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / mimetype.h

diff --git a/include/wx/mimetype.h b/include/wx/mimetype.h
index 4c5f826a17d61d22842b50020a67903e9e99a4e7..d30eb3c70d1f3874cec5366f6f2eb630a8a01670 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/mimetype.h
+++ b/include/wx/mimetype.h
@@ -110,6 +110,15 @@ private:
 class wxMimeTypesManager
 {
 public:
+    // static helper functions
+    // -----------------------
+
+        // check if the given MIME type is the same as the other one: the second
+        // argument may contain wildcards ('*'), but not the first. If the
+        // types are equal or if the mimeType matches wildcard the function
+        // returns TRUE, otherwise it returns FALSE
+    static bool IsOfType(const wxString& mimeType, const wxString& wildcard);
+
     // ctor
     wxMimeTypesManager();
 
@@ -122,12 +131,18 @@ public:
         // get file type from MIME type (in format <category>/<format>)
     wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromMimeType(const wxString& mimeType);
 
-    // other operations
+    // other operations: return TRUE if there were no errors or FALSE if there
+    // were some unreckognized entries (the good entries are always read anyhow)
         // read in additional file (the standard ones are read automatically)
         // in mailcap format (see mimetype.cpp for description)
-    void ReadMailcap(const wxString& filename);
+        //
+        // 'fallback' parameter may be set to TRUE to avoid overriding the
+        // settings from other, previously parsed, files by this one: normally,
+        // the files read most recently would override the older files, but with
+        // fallback == TRUE this won't happen
+    bool ReadMailcap(const wxString& filename, bool fallback = FALSE);
         // read in additional file in mime.types format
-    void ReadMimeTypes(const wxString& filename);
+    bool ReadMimeTypes(const wxString& filename);
 
     // dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from)
     ~wxMimeTypesManager();