using a locally-defined list of directories makes the application and its files more
portable.
-Use the {\it wxFileNameFromPath} global function to extract the filename
-from the path.
+Use the \helpref{wxFileName::SplitPath}{wxfilenamesplitpath} global function
+to extract the filename from the path.
\wxheading{Derived from}
-\helpref{wxList}{wxlist}\\
-\helpref{wxObject}{wxobject}
+\helpref{wxArrayString}{wxarraystring}
\wxheading{Include files}
\wxheading{See also}
-\helpref{wxList}{wxlist}
+\helpref{wxArrayString}{wxarraystring}, \helpref{wxStandardPaths}{wxstandardpaths}, \helpref{wxFileName}{wxfilename}
\latexignore{\rtfignore{\wxheading{Members}}}
-\membersection{wxPathList::wxPathList}
+
+\membersection{wxPathList::wxPathList}\label{wxpathlistctor}
\func{}{wxPathList}{\void}
-Constructor.
+Empty constructor.
+
+\func{}{wxPathList}{\param{const wxArrayString\& }{arr}}
+
+Constructs the object calling the \helpref{Add}{wxpathlistadd} function.
-\membersection{wxPathList::AddEnvList}
+
+\membersection{wxPathList::AddEnvList}\label{wxpathlistaddenvlist}
\func{void}{AddEnvList}{\param{const wxString\& }{env\_variable}}
to the path list. Useful for finding files in the PATH variable, for
example.
-\membersection{wxPathList::Add}
+
+\membersection{wxPathList::Add}\label{wxpathlistadd}
\func{void}{Add}{\param{const wxString\& }{path}}
-Adds the given directory to the path list, but does not
-check if the path was already on the list (use wxPathList::Member)
-for this).
+\func{void}{Add}{\param{const wxArrayString\& }{arr}}
-\membersection{wxPathList::EnsureFileAccessible}
+The first form adds the given directory to the path list, if the path is not already in the list.
+The second form just calls the first form on all elements of the given array.
+
+The {\it path} is always considered a directory but no existence checks will be done on it
+(because if it doesn't exist, it could be created later and thus result a valid path when
+\helpref{FindValidPath}{wxpathlistfindvalidpath} is called).
+
+{\bf Note:} if the given path is relative, it won't be made absolute before adding it
+(this is why \helpref{FindValidPath}{wxpathlistfindvalidpath} may return relative paths).
+
+
+\membersection{wxPathList::EnsureFileAccessible}\label{wxpathlistensurefileaccessible}
\func{void}{EnsureFileAccessible}{\param{const wxString\& }{filename}}
can be accessed using the pathlist. It does this by stripping the
filename and adding the path to the list if not already there.
-\membersection{wxPathList::FindAbsoluteValidPath}
-\func{wxString}{FindAbsoluteValidPath}{\param{const wxString\& }{file}}
+\membersection{wxPathList::FindAbsoluteValidPath}\label{wxpathlistfindabsolutepath}
+
+\constfunc{wxString}{FindAbsoluteValidPath}{\param{const wxString\& }{file}}
-Searches for a full path for an existing file by appending {\it file} to
-successive members of the path list. If the file exists, a temporary
-pointer to the absolute path is returned.
+Searches for a full (i.e. absolute) path for an existing file by appending {\it file} to
+successive members of the path list. If the file wasn't found, an empty
+string is returned.
-\membersection{wxPathList::FindValidPath}
-\func{wxString}{FindValidPath}{\param{const wxString\& }{file}}
+\membersection{wxPathList::FindValidPath}\label{wxpathlistfindvalidpath}
-Searches for a full path for an existing file by appending {\it file} to
-successive members of the path list. If the file exists, a temporary
-pointer to the full path is returned. This path may be relative to the current
-working directory.
+\constfunc{wxString}{FindValidPath}{\param{const wxString\& }{file}}
-\membersection{wxPathList::Member}
+Searches for a path for an existing file by appending {\it file} to
+successive members of the path list.
+If the file wasn't found, an empty string is returned.
-\func{bool}{Member}{\param{const wxString\& }{file}}
+The returned path may be relative to the current working directory.
-true if the path is in the path list (ignoring case).
+The given string must be a file name, eventually with a path prefix (if the path
+prefix is absolute, only its name will be searched); i.e. it must not end with
+a directory separator (see \helpref{wxFileName::GetPathSeparator}{wxfilenamegetpathseparator})
+otherwise an assertion will fail.