The idea is if I gtk and glib are suppose to be portable. That's why I don't
want to use the C standard library.
>From: Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>CC: "Khor, Jeen Ghee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'zin pen'"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: basic file handling in glib.
>Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:27:25 -0700
>
>On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:54:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:37:07 PDT, "Khor, Jeen Ghee"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > why not just use standard C file i/o functions to handle the files
> > > then link them to your gui ?
> >
> > I think there's a language problem, and Zin Pen doesn't realize that
> > things like file selector dialogs, etc, are in the gtk library, not the
>glib
> > library...
>
>Not necessarily - the original message
>
> > I am trying to create a new file, write in some stuff and
> > close it in my
> > gui, but I could not find the documentation for these
> > functions in glib.
>
>spoke of creating a file, writing to it, and closing it, and the latter
>two aren't GTK+ operations; I'd read "in my gui" as meaning that there
>would be ways to "create a new file, write in some stuff and close it"
>from the GUI, e.g. a "save stuff to a file" operation, not that he was
>asking about stuff such as file selector dialogs.
>
>I suspect he or she was assuming - incorrectly - that GLib includes file
>I/O operations similar to those provided by the standard C file I/O
>operations.
>
>It *does* include the I/O channel operations, but those don't include
>the "create a new file" operation; you'd have to do that using native OS
>calls such as "open()" and "creat()" on UNIX, and then pass the file
>descriptor you get back from "open()" or "creat()" to
>"g_io_channel_unix_new()".
>
>(Note: I've never used the GIOChannel stuff, I just know it exists and
>have looked at the page on it in the GLib on-line documentation, so
>replying to this message without CCing "gtk-list", and asking questions
>about how to use it, would be a waste of time, as I couldn't answer
>those questions.)
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