Subject: Request for Change: UT_FileSpec
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 08:16:12 CDT
Hello
this is a call for discussion to a change request within the Abi framework.
Since this change will be widespread all along the code on any platform I
want to start discussing it first.
The problem: currently AbiWord specifies every file thru file path. But
system like MacOS discurage the use of file path to specify a file. Some
other like BeOS recommend to not use them.
Solution:
Change any file referencing in AbiWord from a file path to a UT_FileSpec
that will allow custom file specification that the platform use.
here is a sample definition of the class.
class UT_FileSpec
{
public:
UT_FileSpec();
virtual ~UT_FileSpec();
void getPath (UT_String & path) = 0;
void setPath (const UT_String & path) = 0;
}
Then platform will have:
class UT_MacFileSpec
: public UT_FileSpec
{
public:
UT_MacFileSpec();
virtual ~UT_MacFileSpec();
void getPath (UT_String & path);
void setPath (const UT_String & path);
void getSpec (FSSpec & fss);
void setSpec (const FSSpec & fss);
}
Then you change everything including PD_Document, XAP_Dialog_OpenSaveAs,
etc. to take a UT_FileSpec and not a const char *
If we agree on this I propose to change this for post-0.9
Semantics does not really change. Only the abstraction level. Implementation
for UINX and Win32 should be trivial.
We can extend it later to handle IO (in another class).
Any comment ?
Hub
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