On 4/28/13, Jürgen Hestermann <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem with all this is, that Microsoft is not consistent to itself.
:-) > The only solution I see is to be consistent within Free Pascal and use an > internal routine to define a (logical and pratical) syntax of file masks. > This way it is also possible to have the same mask for different OS's > because all Free Pascal programmers can rely on the same routine to find > matches. But you must consider the end user. If on Windows someone types *.* in my program, he expects to find all files, but on Linux, the user will expect to find only files that have a dot in it's name somewhere. Bart -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
