Subject: Re: xp stat needed
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 08:49:46 CST
According to Mike Nordell <tamlin@algonet.se>:
> Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> >
> > The idea is that when you open a document, the file requester dialog
> > (platform code) return a file object to pass it to the PD_Document that
> > will open and use it transparently.
>
> I'm with you so far, but I still don't understand why an already opened
> _stream_ couldn't be provided (using a small wrapper around the native
> filesystem requester returned filename), instead of a "file".
That could be done too. I don't see why we can't just that currently we can't.
> > If you are curious, look at the BeOS API where they make difference
> beetween
> > file systeme operations and input/output operations.
>
> I know (and I still miss the BeOS API(s) ). What I don't know is why we
> should limit ourselves to using "files", when we (AFAIK) in reality could
> grab input from any source. Using files limits us (semantically) to only
> operating system filesystem-style I/O.
Re-read what I said. Streams are NOT files. Stream are IO things, File IO
being one kind. That's why filesystem objects are separated.
Hub
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