wxWidgets/include/wx/mimetype.h
Vadim Zeitlin c7ce8392e0 wxMimeTypesManager now supports creating associations as well as querying
them (MSW only, thanks to Chris Elliott)


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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Name: wx/mimetype.h
// Purpose: classes and functions to manage MIME types
// Author: Vadim Zeitlin
// Modified by:
// Chris Elliott (biol75@york.ac.uk) 5 Dec 00: write support for Win32
// Created: 23.09.98
// RCS-ID: $Id$
// Copyright: (c) 1998 Vadim Zeitlin <zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr>
// Licence: wxWindows license (part of wxExtra library)
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#ifndef _MIMETYPE_H
#define _MIMETYPE_H
#ifdef __GNUG__
#pragma interface "mimetypebase.h"
#endif
// fwd decls
class wxIcon;
class wxFileTypeImpl;
class wxMimeTypesManagerImpl;
#include "wx/defs.h"
#if wxUSE_FILE
// the things we really need
#include "wx/string.h"
#include "wx/dynarray.h"
class wxMimeTypeCmnModule;
// This class holds information about a given "file type". File type is the
// same as MIME type under Unix, but under Windows it corresponds more to an
// extension than to MIME type (in fact, several extensions may correspond to a
// file type). This object may be created in many different ways and depending
// on how it was created some fields may be unknown so the return value of all
// the accessors *must* be checked!
class WXDLLEXPORT wxFileType
{
friend class WXDLLEXPORT wxMimeTypesManagerImpl; // it has access to m_impl
public:
// An object of this class must be passed to Get{Open|Print}Command. The
// default implementation is trivial and doesn't know anything at all about
// parameters, only filename and MIME type are used (so it's probably ok for
// Windows where %{param} is not used anyhow)
class MessageParameters
{
public:
// ctors
MessageParameters() { }
MessageParameters(const wxString& filename, const wxString& mimetype)
: m_filename(filename), m_mimetype(mimetype) { }
// accessors (called by GetOpenCommand)
// filename
const wxString& GetFileName() const { return m_filename; }
// mime type
const wxString& GetMimeType() const { return m_mimetype; }
// override this function in derived class
virtual wxString GetParamValue(const wxString& WXUNUSED(paramName)) const
{ return ""; }
// virtual dtor as in any base class
virtual ~MessageParameters() { }
protected:
wxString m_filename, m_mimetype;
};
// accessors: all of them return true if the corresponding information
// could be retrieved/found, false otherwise (and in this case all [out]
// parameters are unchanged)
// return the MIME type for this file type
bool GetMimeType(wxString *mimeType) const;
bool GetMimeTypes(wxArrayString& mimeTypes) const;
// fill passed in array with all extensions associated with this file
// type
bool GetExtensions(wxArrayString& extensions);
// get the icon corresponding to this file type, the name of the file
// where the icon resides is return in iconfile if !NULL and its index
// in this file (Win-only) is in iconIndex
bool GetIcon(wxIcon *icon,
wxString *iconFile = NULL,
int *iconIndex = NULL) const;
// get a brief file type description ("*.txt" => "text document")
bool GetDescription(wxString *desc) const;
// get the command to be used to open/print the given file.
// get the command to execute the file of given type
bool GetOpenCommand(wxString *openCmd,
const MessageParameters& params) const;
// get the command to print the file of given type
bool GetPrintCommand(wxString *printCmd,
const MessageParameters& params) const;
// return the number of commands defined for this file type, 0 if none
size_t GetAllCommands(wxArrayString *verbs, wxArrayString *commands,
const wxFileType::MessageParameters& params) const;
// the methods which modify the system database are only implemented under
// Win32 so far (on other platforms they will just return FALSE)
//
// also, they should only be used with the objects created using
// wxMimeTypesManager::Associate()
// set the command to be used for opening the file
bool SetOpenCommand(const wxString& cmd, bool overwriteprompt = TRUE);
// set an arbitrary command, ask confirmation if it already exists and
// overwriteprompt is TRUE
bool SetCommand(const wxString& cmd, const wxString& verb,
bool overwriteprompt = TRUE);
// set the MIME type for this filetype
bool SetMimeType(const wxString& mimeType);
// set the default icon for this filetype
bool SetDefaultIcon(const wxString& cmd = wxEmptyString, int index = 0);
// remove the association from the system database
bool Unassociate();
// delete registration info
bool RemoveOpenCommand();
bool RemoveCommand(const wxString& verb);
bool RemoveMimeType();
bool RemoveDefaultIcon();
// operations
// expand a string in the format of GetOpenCommand (which may contain
// '%s' and '%t' format specificators for the file name and mime type
// and %{param} constructions).
static wxString ExpandCommand(const wxString& command,
const MessageParameters& params);
// dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from)
~wxFileType();
private:
// default ctor is private because the user code never creates us
wxFileType();
// no copy ctor/assignment operator
wxFileType(const wxFileType&);
wxFileType& operator=(const wxFileType&);
wxFileTypeImpl *m_impl;
};
// This class is only used wuth wxMimeTypesManager::AddFallbacks() and is meant
// just as the container for the wxFileType data.
class WXDLLEXPORT wxFileTypeInfo
{
public:
// ctors
// a normal item
wxFileTypeInfo(const char *mimeType,
const char *openCmd,
const char *printCmd,
const char *desc,
// the other parameters form a NULL terminated list of
// extensions
...);
// invalid item - use this to terminate the array passed to
// wxMimeTypesManager::AddFallbacks
wxFileTypeInfo() { }
bool IsValid() const { return !m_mimeType.IsEmpty(); }
// accessors
// get the MIME type
const wxString& GetMimeType() const { return m_mimeType; }
// get the open command
const wxString& GetOpenCommand() const { return m_openCmd; }
// get the print command
const wxString& GetPrintCommand() const { return m_printCmd; }
// get the description
const wxString& GetDescription() const { return m_desc; }
// get the array of all extensions
const wxArrayString& GetExtensions() const { return m_exts; }
private:
wxString m_mimeType, // the MIME type in "type/subtype" form
m_openCmd, // command to use for opening the file (%s allowed)
m_printCmd, // command to use for printing the file (%s allowed)
m_desc; // a free form description of this file type
wxArrayString m_exts; // the extensions which are mapped on this filetype
};
WX_DECLARE_EXPORTED_OBJARRAY(wxFileTypeInfo, wxArrayFileTypeInfo);
// This class accesses the information about all known MIME types and allows
// the application to retrieve information (including how to handle data of
// given type) about them.
//
// NB: currently it doesn't support modifying MIME database (read-only access).
class WXDLLEXPORT wxMimeTypesManager
{
public:
// static helper functions
// -----------------------
// check if the given MIME type is the same as the other one: the second
// argument may contain wildcards ('*'), but not the first. If the
// types are equal or if the mimeType matches wildcard the function
// returns TRUE, otherwise it returns FALSE
static bool IsOfType(const wxString& mimeType, const wxString& wildcard);
// ctor
wxMimeTypesManager();
// Database lookup: all functions return a pointer to wxFileType object
// whose methods may be used to query it for the information you're
// interested in. If the return value is !NULL, caller is responsible for
// deleting it.
// get file type from file extension
wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromExtension(const wxString& ext);
wxFileType *GetOrAllocateFileTypeFromExtension(const wxString& ext);
// get file type from MIME type (in format <category>/<format>)
wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromMimeType(const wxString& mimeType);
// other operations: return TRUE if there were no errors or FALSE if there
// were some unreckognized entries (the good entries are always read anyhow)
// read in additional file (the standard ones are read automatically)
// in mailcap format (see mimetype.cpp for description)
//
// 'fallback' parameter may be set to TRUE to avoid overriding the
// settings from other, previously parsed, files by this one: normally,
// the files read most recently would override the older files, but with
// fallback == TRUE this won't happen
bool ReadMailcap(const wxString& filename, bool fallback = FALSE);
// read in additional file in mime.types format
bool ReadMimeTypes(const wxString& filename);
// enumerate all known MIME types
//
// returns the number of retrieved file types
size_t EnumAllFileTypes(wxArrayString& mimetypes);
// these functions can be used to provide default values for some of the
// MIME types inside the program itself (you may also use
// ReadMailcap(filenameWithDefaultTypes, TRUE /* use as fallback */) to
// achieve the same goal, but this requires having this info in a file).
//
// It isn't possible (currently) to provide fallback icons using this
// function.
//
// The filetypes array should be terminated by a NULL entry
void AddFallbacks(const wxFileTypeInfo *filetypes);
// create a new association between the given extension and MIME type and
// return the wxFileType object corresponding (which should be deleted by
// caller) or NULL if something went wrong
wxFileType *Associate(const wxString& ext,
const wxString& mimeType,
const wxString& filetype = wxEmptyString,
const wxString& desc = wxEmptyString);
// dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from)
~wxMimeTypesManager();
private:
// no copy ctor/assignment operator
wxMimeTypesManager(const wxMimeTypesManager&);
wxMimeTypesManager& operator=(const wxMimeTypesManager&);
wxMimeTypesManagerImpl *m_impl;
// if m_impl is NULL, create one
void EnsureImpl();
friend class wxMimeTypeCmnModule;
};
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// global variables
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// the default mime manager for wxWindows programs
WXDLLEXPORT_DATA(extern wxMimeTypesManager *) wxTheMimeTypesManager;
#endif
// wxUSE_FILE
#endif
//_MIMETYPE_H
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