/* Copyright (C) 2002 The gtkmm Development Team * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library. If not, see . */ _DEFS(glibmm,glib) #include #include #include namespace Glib { _WRAP_ENUM(UserDirectory, GUserDirectory, NO_GTYPE, s#^DIRECTORY_##, decl_prefix GLIBMM_API) _WRAP_ENUM(FormatSizeFlags, GFormatSizeFlags, NO_GTYPE, decl_prefix GLIBMM_API) /** @defgroup MiscUtils Miscellaneous Utility Functions * Miscellaneous Utility Functions -- a selection of portable utility functions. * @{ */ /** Gets a human-readable name for the application, * as set by Glib::set_application_name(). * * This name should be localized if possible, and is intended for display to * the user. Contrast with Glib::get_prgname(), which gets a non-localized * name. If Glib::set_application_name() has not been called, returns the * result of Glib::get_prgname() (which may be empty if Glib::set_prgname() * has also not been called). * * @return Human-readable application name. May return "". */ GLIBMM_API Glib::ustring get_application_name(); /** Sets a human-readable name for the application. * This name should be localized if possible, and is intended for display to * the user. Contrast with Glib::set_prgname(), which sets a non-localized * name. Glib::set_prgname() will be called automatically by * gtk_init(), but Glib::set_application_name() will not. * * Note that for thread safety reasons, this function can only be called once. * * The application name will be used in contexts such as error messages, * or when displaying an application's name in the task list. * * @param application_name Localized name of the application. */ GLIBMM_API void set_application_name(UStringView application_name); /** Gets the name of the program. * * This name should not be localized, in contrast to get_application_name(). * * If you are using GDK or GTK+ the program name is set in gdk_init(), * which is called by gtk_init() and therefore by the constructors of * Gtk::Main and Gtk::Application. The program name is found by taking the last * component of argv[0]. * * @return The name of the program. */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_prgname(); /** Sets the name of the program. * @param prgname The name of the program. */ GLIBMM_API void set_prgname(StdStringView prgname); /** Returns the value of an environment variable. The name and value * are in the GLib file name encoding. On Unix, this means the actual * bytes which might or might not be in some consistent character set * and encoding. On Windows, it is in UTF-8. On Windows, in case the * environment variable's value contains references to other * environment variables, they are expanded. * * @param variable The environment variable to get. * @param[out] found Whether the environment variable has been found. * @return The value of the environment variable, or "" if not found. */ GLIBMM_API std::string getenv(StdStringView variable, bool& found); /** Returns the value of an environment variable. The name and value * are in the GLib file name encoding. On Unix, this means the actual * bytes which might or might not be in some consistent character set * and encoding. On Windows, it is in UTF-8. On Windows, in case the * environment variable's value contains references to other * environment variables, they are expanded. * * @param variable The environment variable to get. * @return The value of the environment variable, or "" if not found. */ GLIBMM_API std::string getenv(StdStringView variable); /** Sets an environment variable. Both the variable's name and value * should be in the GLib file name encoding. On Unix, this means that * they can be any sequence of bytes. On Windows, they should be in * UTF-8. * * Note that on some systems, when variables are overwritten, the memory * used for the previous variables and its value isn't reclaimed. * * @param variable The environment variable to set. It must not contain '='. * @param value The value to which the variable should be set. * @param overwrite Whether to change the variable if it already exists. * @result false if the environment variable couldn't be set. */ GLIBMM_API bool setenv(StdStringView variable, StdStringView value, bool overwrite = true); /** Removes an environment variable from the environment. * * Note that on some systems, when variables are overwritten, the memory * used for the previous variables and its value isn't reclaimed. * Furthermore, this function can't be guaranteed to operate in a * threadsafe way. * * @param variable: the environment variable to remove. It must not contain '='. **/ GLIBMM_API void unsetenv(StdStringView variable); /** Gets the names of all variables set in the environment. * * Programs that want to be portable to Windows should typically use this * function and getenv() instead of using the environ array from the C library * directly. On Windows, the strings in the environ array are in system * codepage encoding, while in most of the typical use cases for environment * variables in GLib-using programs you want the UTF-8 encoding that this * function and getenv() provide. * * @return Vector of environment names. */ GLIBMM_API std::vector listenv(); /** Gets the user name of the current user. * * The encoding of the returned string is system-defined. On UNIX, it might be * the preferred file name encoding, or something else, and there is no * guarantee that it is ever consistent on a machine. On Windows, it is always * UTF-8. * * @return The name of the current user. */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_user_name(); /** Gets the real name of the current user. * * This usually comes from the user's entry in the passwd file. The * encoding of the returned string is subject to the same variability as noted * for get_user_name(). If the real user name cannot be determined, the string * "Unknown" is returned. * * @return The current user's real name. */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_real_name(); /** Return a name for the machine. * * The returned name is not necessarily a fully-qualified domain name, * or even present in DNS or some other name service at all. It need * not even be unique on your local network or site, but usually it * is. Callers should not rely on the return value having any specific * properties like uniqueness for security purposes. Even if the name * of the machine is changed while an application is running, the * return value from this function does not change. If no name can be * determined, a default fixed string "localhost" is returned. * * @return The host name of the machine. * * @newin{2,64} */ GLIBMM_API Glib::ustring get_host_name(); /** Gets the current user's home directory. * @return The current user's home directory or an empty string if not defined. */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_home_dir(); /** Gets the directory to use for temporary files. * This is found from inspecting the environment variables TMPDIR, * TMP, and TEMP in that order. If none of those are defined * "/tmp" is returned on UNIX and "C:\\" on Windows. * @return The directory to use for temporary files. */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_tmp_dir(); /** Gets the current directory. * @return The current directory. */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_current_dir(); /** Returns the full path of a special directory using its logical id. * * On Unix this is done using the XDG special user directories. * For compatibility with existing practise, Glib::USER_DIRECTORY_DESKTOP * falls back to `$HOME/Desktop` when XDG special user directories have * not been set up. * * Depending on the platform, the user might be able to change the path * of the special directory without requiring the session to restart; GLib * will not reflect any change once the special directories are loaded. * * @param directory The logical id of special directory. * @return The path to the specified special directory, or an empty string * if the logical id was not found. * * @newin{2,46} */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_user_special_dir(UserDirectory directory); /** Returns a base directory in which to access application data such as icons * that is customized for a particular user. * * On UNIX platforms this is determined using the mechanisms described in the * XDG Base Directory Specification * * @newin{2,14} */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_user_data_dir(); /** Returns a base directory in which to store user-specific application * configuration information such as user preferences and settings. * * On UNIX platforms this is determined using the mechanisms described in the * XDG Base Directory Specification * * @newin{2,14} */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_user_config_dir(); /** Returns an ordered list of base directories in which to access system-wide application data. * On Unix platforms this is determined using the mechanisms described in the XDG Base Directory Specification. * * @newin{2,18} */ GLIBMM_API std::vector get_system_data_dirs(); /** Returns an ordered list of base directories in which to access system-wide configuration information. * On Unix platforms this is determined using the mechanisms described in the XDG Base Directory Specification. * * @newin{2,18} */ GLIBMM_API std::vector get_system_config_dirs(); /** Returns a base directory in which to store non-essential, cached data * specific to particular user. * * On UNIX platforms this is determined using the mechanisms described in the * XDG Base Directory Specification * * @newin{2,14} */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_user_cache_dir(); /** Returns a directory that is unique to the current user on the local system. * * This is the directory specified in the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable. * In the case that this variable is not set, we return the value of * Glib::get_user_cache_dir(), after verifying that it exists. * * @newin{2,64} */ GLIBMM_API std::string get_user_runtime_dir(); /** Returns @c true if the given @a filename is an absolute file name, i.e.\ it * contains a full path from the root directory such as "/usr/local" * on UNIX or "C:\\windows" on Windows systems. * @param filename A file name. * @return Whether @a filename is an absolute path. */ GLIBMM_API bool path_is_absolute(StdStringView filename); /** Returns the remaining part of @a filename after the root component, * i.e.\ after the "/" on UNIX or "C:\\" on Windows. * If @a filename is not an absolute path, "" will be returned. * @param filename A file name. * @return The file name without the root component, or "". */ GLIBMM_API std::string path_skip_root(StdStringView filename); /** Gets the name of the file without any leading directory components. * @param filename The name of the file. * @return The name of the file without any leading directory components. */ GLIBMM_API std::string path_get_basename(StdStringView filename); /** Gets the directory components of a file name. * If the file name has no directory components "." is returned. * @param filename The name of the file. * @return The directory components of the file. */ GLIBMM_API std::string path_get_dirname(StdStringView filename); /** Gets the canonical file name from @a filename. * * All triple slashes are turned into single slashes, and all `..` and `.`s * resolved against @a relative_to. * * Symlinks are not followed, and the returned path is guaranteed to be absolute. * * If @a filename is an absolute path, @a relative_to is ignored. Otherwise, * @a relative_to will be prepended to @a filename to make it absolute. @a relative_to * must be an absolute path, or nullptr. If @a relative_to is nullptr, * it'll fallback to get_current_dir(). * * This function never fails, and will canonicalize file paths even if they don't exist. * * No file system I/O is done. * * @param filename The name of the file. * @param relative_to The relative directory, or nullptr to use the * current working directory. * @return The canonical file path. * * @newin{2,64} */ GLIBMM_API std::string canonicalize_filename(StdStringView filename, StdStringView relative_to = nullptr); /** Creates a filename from a series of elements using the correct * separator for filenames. * This function behaves identically to Glib::build_path(G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, * elements). No attempt is made to force the resulting filename to be an * absolute path. If the first element is a relative path, the result will * be a relative path. * @param elements A vector holding the elements of the path to build. * @return The resulting path. */ GLIBMM_API std::string build_filename(const std::vector& elements); /** Creates a filename from one or more elements using the correct separator for filenames. * No attempt is made to force the resulting filename to be an absolute path. * If the first element is a relative path, the result will be a relative path. * @tparam Strings std::string or const char*. * @param strings The path elements. * @return The resulting path. */ template std::string build_filename(const Strings&... strings) { return Glib::convert_return_gchar_ptr_to_stdstring( g_build_filename(StdStringView(strings).c_str()..., nullptr)); } /** Creates a path from a series of elements using @a separator as the * separator between elements. * * At the boundary between two elements, any trailing occurrences of * @a separator in the first element, or leading occurrences of @a separator * in the second element are removed and exactly one copy of the separator is * inserted. * * Empty elements are ignored. * * The number of leading copies of the separator on the result is * the same as the number of leading copies of the separator on * the first non-empty element. * * The number of trailing copies of the separator on the result is the same * as the number of trailing copies of the separator on the last non-empty * element. (Determination of the number of trailing copies is done without * stripping leading copies, so if the separator is "ABA", * "ABABA" has 1 trailing copy.) * * However, if there is only a single non-empty element, and there * are no characters in that element not part of the leading or * trailing separators, then the result is exactly the original value * of that element. * * Other than for determination of the number of leading and trailing * copies of the separator, elements consisting only of copies * of the separator are ignored. * * @param separator A string used to separate the elements of the path. * @param elements A vector holding the elements of the path to build. * @return The resulting path. */ GLIBMM_API std::string build_path(const std::string& separator, const std::vector& elements); /** Locates the first executable named @a program in the user's path, in the * same way that execvp() would locate it. * Returns a string with the absolute path name, or "" if the program * is not found in the path. If @a program is already an absolute path, * returns a copy of @a program if @a program exists and is executable, and * "" otherwise. * * On Windows, if @a program does not have a file type suffix, tries to append * the suffixes in the PATHEXT environment variable (if that doesn't * exist, the suffixes .com, .exe, and .bat) in turn, and then look for the * resulting file name in the same way as CreateProcess() would. This means * first in the directory where the program was loaded from, then in the * current directory, then in the Windows 32-bit system directory, then in the * Windows directory, and finally in the directories in the PATH * environment variable. If the program is found, the return value contains * the full name including the type suffix. * * @param program A program name. * @return An absolute path, or "". */ GLIBMM_API std::string find_program_in_path(StdStringView program); /** Formats a size (for example the size of a file) into a human readable string. * * Sizes are rounded to the nearest size prefix (kB, MB, GB) * and are displayed rounded to the nearest tenth. E.g. the file size * 3292528 bytes will be converted into the string "3.2 MB". * * The prefix units base is 1000 (i.e. 1 kB is 1000 bytes), unless the * Glib::FormatSizeFlags::IEC_UNITS flag is set. * * @param size A size in bytes. * @param flags Flags to modify the output. * @return A formatted string containing a human readable file size. * * @newin{2,46} */ GLIBMM_API Glib::ustring format_size(guint64 size, FormatSizeFlags flags = FormatSizeFlags::DEFAULT); /** @} group MiscUtils */ } // namespace Glib