Subject: Re: xp stat needed
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 08:33:06 CST
Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>
> The idea is that when you open a document, the file requester dialog
> (platform code) return a file object to pass it to the PD_Document that
> will open and use it transparently.
I'm with you so far, but I still don't understand why an already opened
_stream_ couldn't be provided (using a small wrapper around the native
filesystem requester returned filename), instead of a "file".
> Note that this is not the kind of stuff I'll do right now, but in the 1.1
> branched tree.
Me neither, but lets talk options.
> If you are curious, look at the BeOS API where they make difference
beetween
> file systeme operations and input/output operations.
I know (and I still miss the BeOS API(s) ). What I don't know is why we
should limit ourselves to using "files", when we (AFAIK) in reality could
grab input from any source. Using files limits us (semantically) to only
operating system filesystem-style I/O.
[...]
/Mike
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