X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/4c51a665c649f7579fb39e62070cef4f66b3210d..b02dd12239c8a59b9a545d9fcb04974f8ad02c6b:/interface/wx/config.h?ds=inline

diff --git a/interface/wx/config.h b/interface/wx/config.h
index 48f0095514..9fcd26670d 100644
--- a/interface/wx/config.h
+++ b/interface/wx/config.h
@@ -255,6 +255,8 @@
 
     @library{wxbase}
     @category{cfg}
+    
+    @see wxConfigPathChanger
 */
 class wxConfigBase : public wxObject
 {
@@ -312,7 +314,7 @@ public:
             @n The @c wxCONFIG_USE_NO_ESCAPE_CHARACTERS style can be helpful if your
             config file must be read or written to by a non-wxWidgets program
             (which might not understand the escape characters). Note, however,
-            that if @c wxCONFIG_USE_NO_ESCAPE_CHARACTERS style is used, it is is
+            that if @c wxCONFIG_USE_NO_ESCAPE_CHARACTERS style is used, it is
             now your application's responsibility to ensure that there is no
             newline or other illegal characters in a value, before writing that
             value to the file.
@@ -352,7 +354,9 @@ public:
     /**
         Set current path: if the first character is '/', it is the absolute
         path, otherwise it is a relative path. '..' is supported. If @a strPath
-        doesn't exist it is created.
+        doesn't exist, it is created.
+        
+        @see wxConfigPathChanger
     */
     virtual void SetPath(const wxString& strPath) = 0;
 
@@ -592,8 +596,7 @@ public:
     /**
         Reads a float value, returning @true if the value was found.
 
-        With the second overload, if the value was not found, @a defaultVal is
-        used instead.
+        If the value was not found, @a f is not changed.
 
         Notice that the value is read as a double but must be in a valid range
         for floats for the function to return @true.
@@ -604,13 +607,25 @@ public:
         Not supported by wxPerl.
         @endWxPerlOnly
     */
-    //@{
     bool Read(const wxString& key, float* f) const;
+    /**
+        Reads a float value, returning @true if the value was found.
+
+        If the value was not found, @a defaultVal is used instead.
+
+        Notice that the value is read as a double but must be in a valid range
+        for floats for the function to return @true.
+
+        @since 2.9.1
+
+        @beginWxPerlOnly
+        Not supported by wxPerl.
+        @endWxPerlOnly
+    */
     bool Read(const wxString& key, float* f, float defaultVal) const;
-    //@}
 
     /**
-        Reads a float value, returning @true if the value was found. If the
+        Reads a boolean value, returning @true if the value was found. If the
         value was not found, @a b is not changed.
 
         @since 2.9.1
@@ -621,7 +636,7 @@ public:
     */
     bool Read(const wxString& key, bool* b) const;
     /**
-        Reads a bool value, returning @true if the value was found. If the
+        Reads a boolean value, returning @true if the value was found. If the
         value was not found, @a defaultVal is used instead.
 
         @beginWxPerlOnly
@@ -763,7 +778,7 @@ public:
 
     /**
         Delete the whole underlying object (disk file, registry key, ...).
-        Primarly for use by uninstallation routine.
+        Primarily for use by uninstallation routine.
     */
     virtual bool DeleteAll() = 0;
 
@@ -891,3 +906,79 @@ public:
     static wxConfigBase* Set(wxConfigBase* pConfig);
 };
 
+
+/**
+    @class wxConfigPathChanger
+
+    A handy little class which changes the current path in a wxConfig object and restores it in dtor.
+    Declaring a local variable of this type, it's possible to work in a specific directory 
+    and ensure that the path is automatically restored when the function returns.
+
+    For example:
+    @code
+    // this function loads somes settings from the given wxConfig object;
+    // the path selected inside it is left unchanged
+    bool LoadMySettings(wxConfigBase* cfg)
+    {
+        wxConfigPathChanger changer(cfg, "/Foo/Data/SomeString");
+        wxString str;
+        if ( !config->Read("SomeString", &str) ) {
+            wxLogError("Couldn't read SomeString!");
+            return false;     
+                // NOTE: without wxConfigPathChanger it would be easy to forget to
+                //       set the old path back into the wxConfig object before this return!
+        }
+        
+        // do something useful with SomeString...
+        
+        return true;    // again: wxConfigPathChanger dtor will restore the original wxConfig path
+    }
+    @endcode
+
+    @library{wxbase}
+    @category{cfg}
+*/
+class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxConfigPathChanger
+{
+public:
+
+    /**
+        Changes the path of the given wxConfigBase object so that the key @a strEntry is accessible
+        (for read or write).
+        
+        In other words, the ctor uses wxConfigBase::SetPath() with everything which precedes the 
+        last slash of @a strEntry, so that:
+        @code
+        wxConfigPathChanger(wxConfigBase::Get(), "/MyProgram/SomeKeyName");
+        @endcode        
+        has the same effect of:
+        @code
+        wxConfigPathChanger(wxConfigBase::Get(), "/MyProgram/");
+        @endcode        
+    */
+    wxConfigPathChanger(const wxConfigBase *pContainer, const wxString& strEntry);
+
+    /**
+        Restores the path selected, inside the wxConfig object passed to the ctor, to the path which was 
+        selected when the wxConfigPathChanger ctor was called.
+    */
+    ~wxConfigPathChanger();
+
+    /**
+        Returns the name of the key which was passed to the ctor.
+        The "name" is just anything which follows the last slash of the string given to the ctor.
+    */
+    const wxString& Name() const;
+
+    /**
+        This method must be called if the original path inside the wxConfig object 
+        (i.e. the current path at the moment of creation of this wxConfigPathChanger object) 
+        could have been deleted, thus preventing wxConfigPathChanger from restoring the not 
+        existing (any more) path.
+
+        If the original path doesn't exist any more, the path will be restored to
+        the deepest still existing component of the old path.
+    */
+    void UpdateIfDeleted();
+};
+