SDL 2.0 : File and internationalisation

I would also like to see equivalents of windows “My Documents” and “My
Pictures” and “Shared Documents” but I dont know what those are like on
other systems (i know how it is arranged on UNIX) but what about Mac OS
X? are there personal folders like that? specific ones for file types?
shared folders?

RWops where to limited for me, i need something like you pass it a memory
chunk and the size of it and then SDL can use the RWops that’s linked to the
chunck of memory for something, without copying the block of memory or any
of that stuff.> I agree. Expand the RWops enough to remove the problematic limitations

and let archiving be done externally–after all, the actual code to
handle archives can be platform-independent, so there’s little reason to
bloat SDL with it.

I also agree with Bill on i18n. We already have a wheel: gettext.


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Oh, for crying out loud, does the world ‘simple’ mean anything to you?
Simple, as in “Simple Directmedia Layer”?? I mean, why would you want to
have this in core SDL library when it’s almost trivial to implement (and
perhaps make SDL_whatever out of it)?On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 09:26:53PM -0500, Calvin Spealman wrote:

I would also like to see equivalents of windows “My Documents” and “My
Pictures” and “Shared Documents” but I dont know what those are like on
other systems (i know how it is arranged on UNIX) but what about Mac OS
X? are there personal folders like that? specific ones for file types?
shared folders?


Ivan Stankovic, @Ivan_Stankovic

Ivan Stankovic wrote:> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 09:26:53PM -0500, Calvin Spealman wrote:

I would also like to see equivalents of windows “My Documents” and “My
Pictures” and “Shared Documents” but I dont know what those are like on
other systems (i know how it is arranged on UNIX) but what about Mac OS
X? are there personal folders like that? specific ones for file types?
shared folders?

Oh, for crying out loud, does the world ‘simple’ mean anything to you?
Simple, as in “Simple Directmedia Layer”?? I mean, why would you want to
have this in core SDL library when it’s almost trivial to implement (and
perhaps make SDL_whatever out of it)?

I didnt say it had to be in the core. It would most likely be best
placed in a helper library.

There already IS such a library for SDL12, don’t forget! It works well
under a wide variety of platforms. http://www.icculus.org/physfs/On Saturday 15 March 2003 04:24 pm, Stephane Magnenat wrote:

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One thing i would like to see in SDL itself is offourse some basic I/O
like deleteing a file/dir making a dir ect. and something to itterate
trough the dir/file tree like findfirst/findnext under WIN32.

Having an abstraction for stuff like findfirst/findnext is the core need.
I agree that the archive part could be put into a standard_but_not_core
library, like SDL_Net.

Tyler Montbriand wrote:> On Saturday 15 March 2003 04:24 pm, Stephane Magnenat wrote:

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One thing i would like to see in SDL itself is offourse some basic I/O
like deleteing a file/dir making a dir ect. and something to itterate
trough the dir/file tree like findfirst/findnext under WIN32.

Having an abstraction for stuff like findfirst/findnext is the core need.
I agree that the archive part could be put into a standard_but_not_core
library, like SDL_Net.

There already IS such a library for SDL12, don’t forget! It works well
under a wide variety of platforms. http://www.icculus.org/physfs/

No, what I’m looking for is a simple collection of functions that return
the paths to standard folders containing a users personal files of
different types.

No, what I’m looking for is a simple collection of functions that return
the paths to standard folders containing a users personal files of
different types.

This is off-topic. Please discoss it through e-mail off the list.

Thanks!
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

It would be nice if there was something to emulate either the POSIX
directory functionality under MS Windows

have you ever heard of msys? it isnt exactly what your asking for but it
might do.

It’s nothing like what I asked for. MSYS, from what I’ve heard, executes UNIX shell scripts on Microsoft Windows, in order to make configure scripts and the like work properly. I’m talking about functions the POSIX standard C library, which has nothing to do with MSYS. Cygwin will provide emulation of the POSIX functions, but it takes a huge DLL and it’d be real overkill just to read a few directories.

-samOn Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:42:46 -0800 “Atrix Wolfe” wrote: