At 04:16 PM 4/30/2009, you wrote:
> Let's say I have a FolderItem in RB, and I have a dylib written in C++
> that calls the POSIX function lstat() (or stat()) to verify the
> existence of the file.
Er... can we stop here and explore why you're going to such great
lengths? What does lstat or stat do for you that, say, .Exists does not?
Before I answer that, I want to say thanks for your great Encoding
article and I did read it...
It's because I have many functions in this dylib and that needs to be
self-sufficient. This question is actually a C++/XCode question in
disguise as a RB question.
-I take the AbsolutePath of the folder item
Yikes. If you do invoke a Unix routine, I would expect it to want a
ShellPath, not an AbsolutePath.
Either way. I actually deal with this in another sort of way, but I
omitted it for brevity.
What does get passed is a UNIX-style path, I change it along the way.
It truly is the trademark symbol that gets in the way, because if I
do the exact same thing to a file where the trademark is NOT
involved, it works.
But again, that's not my question. What is my question is how lstat()
is behaving.
And I have no idea what encoding it would want... probably
whatever's stored on the operating system, but that could be almost anything.
How would you work around such a problem? (Shorter ways are preferred)
I think an overriding solution would be:
1) Take a FolderItem in RB and create a corresponding FSRef in C++,
and vis-versa
2) Have a light/barebones FolderItem implementation, for now
..Child(), .Parent(), and .Exists()
Embarrassingly, I use paths in my C++ coding, and I know that's bad,
but at the time I had no option (for me). So these things bite me.
I'd asked this question back, and I got an answer similar to "use the
RB plugin SDK" but that didn't make any sense to my little brain so I
dropped it. But I really should embrace it - so, can the FolderItem
class be exposed/created for C++, and how is that done?
And, just to close, would this truly solve my core problem that was asked?
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