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*You must not pass absolute paths to <tt>File::open()</tt>! If you must open a file using a path, the correct way is to first create an FSNode from the path, then pass that to File::open. | *You must not pass absolute paths to <tt>File::open()</tt>! If you must open a file using a path, the correct way is to first create an FSNode from the path, then pass that to File::open. | ||
*You can pass relative paths in a limited fashion; you must use the "/" character as separator. See the doxygen docs of class FSDirectory for details. | *You can pass relative paths in a limited fashion; you must use the "/" character as separator. See the doxygen docs of class FSDirectory for details. | ||
*There are new File::open methods: You can pass an "Archive" subclass (e.g. a ZIPArchive) to it, and it will search for that file in the Archive). In particular, the SearchMan is such an Archive subclass, and can wrap arbitrary paths, ZIP archives, etc. By providing Archive subclasses, you can extend this arbitrarily. | *There are new File::open methods: You can pass an "Archive" subclass (e.g. a ZIPArchive) to it, and it will search for that file in the Archive). In particular, the SearchMan is such an Archive subclass, and can wrap arbitrary paths, ZIP or ARJ archives, etc. By providing Archive subclasses, you can extend this arbitrarily. | ||
==The Parts of the System== | ==The Parts of the System== | ||
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===Archive (from common/archive.h)=== | ===Archive (from common/archive.h)=== | ||
This class represents an accumulation of "files". It can be a filesystem directory (implemented by FSDirectory), and then "contains" all the files in that directory (and possibly also files contained some levels deep in that dir). It can be a ZIP archive (see common/unzip.h), and then the "files" in it are members of that | This class represents an accumulation of "files". It can be a filesystem directory (implemented by FSDirectory), and then "contains" all the files in that directory (and possibly also files contained some levels deep in that dir). It can be a ZIP or ARJ archive (see resp. common/unzip.h and common/unarj.h), and then the "files" in it are members of that compressed file. It can even be an accumulation of multiple other archives, and then it contains all files contained in all of these dirs (see class SearchSet). The SearchManager is in fact just an instance of this class, too. | ||
This concept is simple yet powerful. By using SearchSet, you can group together multiple directories and | This concept is simple yet powerful. By using SearchSet, you can group together multiple directories and compressed files, and then with a single call, search for files in all of them simultaneously. | ||
You can ask an Archive whether it contains a given file; open a file (either via the openFile() method, which returns a ReadStream pointer you have to delete later on; or via the new File::open(name, archive) method); get a list of all files in the archive; or get a list of | You can ask an Archive whether it contains a given file; open a file (either via the openFile() method, which returns a ReadStream pointer you have to delete later on; or via the new File::open(name, archive) method); get a list of all files in the archive; or get a list of | ||
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If your port has the config file in a special location (be it in a special path, or you want to store it in the Windows registry, or in some special NVRAM, or whatever -- go nuts with ideas), you can overload OSystem::openConfigFileForReading() and OSystem::openConfigFileForWriting() methods. | If your port has the config file in a special location (be it in a special path, or you want to store it in the Windows registry, or in some special NVRAM, or whatever -- go nuts with ideas), you can overload OSystem::openConfigFileForReading() and OSystem::openConfigFileForWriting() methods. | ||
If you want ScummVM to look for file in additional dirs (like, on OSX, we store the engine-data files like sky.cpt and kyra.dat inside the application bundle), your port can overload the OSystem::addSysArchivesToSearchSet() method to hook these extra locations into the SearchMan -- this way, the location is checked whenever the default File::open method is used, for example. You can hook up arbitrary Archive classes here (even . | If you want ScummVM to look for file in additional dirs (like, on OSX, we store the engine-data files like sky.cpt and kyra.dat inside the application bundle), your port can overload the OSystem::addSysArchivesToSearchSet() method to hook these extra locations into the SearchMan -- this way, the location is checked whenever the default File::open method is used, for example. You can hook up arbitrary Archive classes here (even .ZIP or .ARJ files), not just directories, so it's quite flexible. | ||