X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/cdf339c9def7d24cb50385f93476aab4e485e32f..7b4c31495268b3452019c67e52ff8ff86c03e36c:/docs/latex/wx/filetype.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/filetype.tex b/docs/latex/wx/filetype.tex index 2407c2f8b4..22673a5a2f 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/filetype.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/filetype.tex @@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ object may be created in several different ways: the program might know the file 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... @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ These parameters may be useful to the program used to open, edit, view or print 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() @@ -122,21 +122,31 @@ The destructor of this class is not virtual, so it should not be derived from. \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}{GetMimeType}{\param{wxArrayString\&}{ mimeTypes}} + +Same as \helpref{GetMimeType}{wxfiletypegetmimetype} but returns array of MIME +types. This array will contain only one item in most cases but sometimes, +notably under Unix with KDE, may contain more MIME types. This happens when +one file extension is mapped to different MIME types by KDE, mailcap and +mime.types. + \membersection{wxFileType::GetExtensions}\label{wxfiletypegetextensions} \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. @@ -144,7 +154,7 @@ 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 @@ -155,7 +165,7 @@ of these desktop environments. \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. @@ -163,16 +173,25 @@ 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. @@ -181,15 +200,15 @@ 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}}