extension and wish to find out the corresponding MIME type or, conversely, it
might want to find the right extension for the file to which it writes the
contents of given MIME type. Depending on how it was created some fields may be
-unknown so the return value of all the accessors {\bf must} be checked: FALSE
+unknown so the return value of all the accessors {\bf must} be checked: {\tt false}
will be returned if the corresponding information couldn't be found.
The objects of this class are never created by the application code but are
returned by \helpref{wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromMimeType}{wxmimetypesmanagergetfiletypefrommimetype} and
\helpref{wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromExtension}{wxmimetypesmanagergetfiletypefromextension} methods.
-But it's your responsibility to delete the returned pointer when you're done
+But it is your responsibility to delete the returned pointer when you're done
with it!
% TODO describe MIME types better than this...
the message, so, for example, an e-mail client program will have to pass them to
this program. Because wxFileType itself can not know about these parameters,
it uses MessageParameters class to query them. The default implementation only
-requiers the caller to provide the file name (always used by the program to be
+requires the caller to provide the file name (always used by the program to be
called - it must know which file to open) and the MIME type and supposes that
there are no other parameters. If you wish to supply additional parameters, you
must derive your own class from MessageParameters and override GetParamValue()
\func{bool}{GetMimeType}{\param{wxString*}{ mimeType}}
-If the function returns TRUE, the string pointed to by {\it mimeType} is filled
+If the function returns {\tt true}, the string pointed to by {\it mimeType} is filled
with full MIME type specification for this file type: for example, "text/plain".
\membersection{wxFileType::GetMimeTypes}\label{wxfiletypegetmimetypes}
\func{bool}{GetExtensions}{\param{wxArrayString\&}{ extensions}}
-If the function returns TRUE, the array {\it extensions} is filled
+If the function returns {\tt true}, the array {\it extensions} is filled
with all extensions associated with this file type: for example, it may
contain the following two elements for the MIME type "text/html" (notice the
absence of the leading dot): "html" and "htm".
{\bf Windows:} This function is currently not implemented: there is no
(efficient) way to retrieve associated extensions from the given MIME type on
-this platform, so it will only return TRUE if the wxFileType object was created
+this platform, so it will only return {\tt true} if the wxFileType object was created
by \helpref{GetFileTypeFromExtension}{wxmimetypesmanagergetfiletypefromextension}
function in the first place.
\func{bool}{GetIcon}{\param{wxIcon*}{ icon}}
-If the function returns TRUE, the icon associated with this file type will be
+If the function returns {\tt true}, the icon associated with this file type will be
created and assigned to the {\it icon} parameter.
{\bf Unix:} MIME manager gathers information about icons from GNOME
\func{bool}{GetDescription}{\param{wxString*}{ desc}}
-If the function returns TRUE, the string pointed to by {\it desc} is filled
+If the function returns {\tt true}, the string pointed to by {\it desc} is filled
with a brief description for this file type: for example, "text document" for
the "text/plain" MIME type.
\func{bool}{GetOpenCommand}{\param{wxString*}{ command}, \param{MessageParameters\&}{ params}}
-If the function returns TRUE, the string pointed to by {\it command} is filled
-with the command which must be executed (see \helpref{wxExecute}{wxexecute}) in
-order to open the file of the given type. The name of the file is
-retrieved from \helpref{MessageParameters}{wxfiletypemessageparameters} class.
+\func{wxString}{GetOpenCommand}{\param{const wxString\&}{ filename}}
+
+With the first version of this method, if the {\tt true} is returned, the
+string pointed to by {\it command} is filled with the command which must be
+executed (see \helpref{wxExecute}{wxexecute}) in order to open the file of the
+given type. In this case, the name of the file as well as any other parameters
+is retrieved from \helpref{MessageParameters}{wxfiletypemessageparameters}
+class.
+
+In the second case, only the filename is specified and the command to be used
+to open this kind of file is returned directly. An empty string is returned to
+indicate that an error occured (typically meaning that there is no standard way
+to open this kind of files).
\membersection{wxFileType::GetPrintCommand}\label{wxfiletypegetprintcommand}
\func{bool}{GetPrintCommand}{\param{wxString*}{ command},\param{MessageParameters\&}{ params}}
-If the function returns TRUE, the string pointed to by {\it command} is filled
+If the function returns {\tt true}, the string pointed to by {\it command} is filled
with the command which must be executed (see \helpref{wxExecute}{wxexecute}) in
order to print the file of the given type. The name of the file is
retrieved from \helpref{MessageParameters}{wxfiletypemessageparameters} class.
\func{static wxString}{ExpandCommand}{\param{const wxString\&}{ command}, \param{MessageParameters\&}{ params}}
-This function is primarly intended for GetOpenCommand and GetPrintCommand
+This function is primarily intended for GetOpenCommand and GetPrintCommand
usage but may be also used by the application directly if, for example, you want
to use some non default command to open the file.
-The function replaces all occurences of
+The function replaces all occurrences of
\twocolwidtha{7cm}
\begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt
-\twocolitem{format specificator}{with}
+\twocolitem{format specification}{with}
\twocolitem{\%s}{the full file name}
\twocolitem{\%t}{the MIME type}
\twocolitem{\%\{param\}}{the value of the parameter {\it param}}
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