Mark,
The concept of file selection is specific to the application that works with
files. Just like file coloring attributes and font are. For instance, what
file selection information do you think that a command line application
needs? I think that none. So why have it in the API first of all?
Please note that VFS is just a library that provides a file abstraction
layer to transparently handle various kinds of file systems. That's all what
it does. And it does it well...
Regards,
Robert
On 1/3/06, Mark Fortner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Anton,
> Thanks for the examples.
>
> As for point #5. IMO VFS shouldn't be relegated to the server. In
> reality there are a limited number of use cases where I would want to
> use VFS on a server. But I can think of plenty of reasons to want a
> better file management API on the desktop. Being able to indicate that
> a file is selected is an essential part of that.
>
> If there's another way of indicating a file is selected, please let me
> know.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Mark
>
> anton huber wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark!
> >
> > ad 2.:
> > length() -> fileObject.getContent().getSize()
> > isFile() -> fileObject.getType()==FileType.FILE
> > isDirectory() -> fileObject.getType()==FileType.FOLDER
> > getLastModified() -> fileObject.getContent().getLastModifiedTime()
> >
> > ad 4.: rename:
> > long lastModTime =
> > sourceFileObject.getContent().getLastModifiedTime();
> > if (!sourceFileObject.canRenameTo(targetFileObject)){ //
> > other device
> > targetFileObject.copyFrom(sourceFileObject,
> > Selectors.SELECT_SELF);
> > sourceFileObject.delete(Selectors.SELECT_SELF);
> > } else { // same device
> > sourceFileObject.moveTo(targetFileObject);
> > }
> >
> > targetFileObject.getContent().setLastModifiedTime(lastModTime);
> >
> > ad 5.: Is this realy a matter of VFS ?
> >
> >
> > Hope it helps.
> >
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