good question!
Note that the new functions are more sophisticated than the old ones. In
particular, they can tell you WHY the dir/file isn't read/writeable.
Note also, that a writeable file need not yet exist but the directory should
be writeable.
Allan wrote them because he wanted the feedback for the "idiot user". I
modified them so that they worked ;-) and then thought that they'd be useful
to other GUI's. They're certainly useful to other xforms dialogs, so they
should at least be put in xform_helpers.[Ch] rather than just in
FormPreferences.
As you can see, I'm not sure whether they should replace the existing
functions!
Angus
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 16:18, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | patch2 continues the FormPreferences clean up, but....
>
> Why do we want to have:
>
> int IsDirWriteable (string const & path);
> bool IsFileReadable (string const & path);
> int IsFileWriteable (string const & path);
>
> _and_
>
> (WriteableDir, ReadableDir, WriteableFile,
> ReadableFile)
>
> i.e. which(?) of them should go?
>
> Lgb
