Subject: Re: Re:xp stat needed
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 05:38:37 CST
--- Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> wrote: >
According to Mike Nordell <tamlin@algonet.se>:
>
> > So what's holding us back from declaring a simple
> XAP class called
> > FileSystem that only holds static member functions
> (as a surrogate for
> > namespace) with function like
> > bool isDirectory(const char* pszFsEntry);
> >
> > that is implemented in platform dependent XAP .cpp
> files?
>
> And possible some XAP_File class that serves to
> reference a file accross
> AbiWord calls. For example, instead of passing a
> path to an importer, pass a
> XAP_File.... That allow abstracting files on OS
> where path use is
> discouraged...
> That class should not be to hard to implement.
Just a reminder that the importers and exporters do
not only deal with files. They also deal with the
clipboard. In the future there may be a case for
importing a file over HTTP from a URL like MSWord can
do as well. So we better keep this sort of thing in
mind if we can.
Andrew.
> > The Win32 MSVC CRT has a _stat function and AFAIK
> all unices has it (without
> > the leading underscore), and for the platforms
> that does not have it...
> > Well, they can implement it in their platform
> preferred way. For PDAs
> > without directories it might be a problem though.
> :-)
> >
> > This could also be the place to put getFileSize,
> createDirecory and any and
> > all such filesystem operations.
> >
> > Am I nuts?
> >
> > /Mike
> >
> >
>
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