Re: basic file handling in glib.

["zin pen" <dongfangminzhu hotmail com>]

The idea is if I gtk and glib are suppose to be portable. That's why I don't 
want to use the C standard library.


> From: Guy Harris <gharris flashcom net>
> To: Valdis Kletnieks vt edu
> CC: "Khor, Jeen Ghee" <jeen ghee khor intel com>,        "'zin pen'" 
> <dongfangminzhu hotmail com>, gtk-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: basic file handling in glib.
> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:27:25 -0700
>
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:54:36PM -0400, Valdis Kletnieks vt edu wrote:
> > On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:37:07 PDT, "Khor, Jeen Ghee" 
> <jeen ghee khor intel com>  said:
> > > why not just use standard C file i/o functions to handle the files
> > > then link them to your gui ?
> >
> > I think there's a language problem, and Zin Pen doesn't realize that
> > things like file selector dialogs, etc, are in the gtk library, not the 
> glib
> > library...
>
> Not necessarily - the original message
>
> > I am trying to create a new file, write in some stuff and
> > close it in my
> > gui, but I could not find the documentation for these
> > functions in glib.
>
> spoke of creating a file, writing to it, and closing it, and the latter
> two aren't GTK+ operations; I'd read "in my gui" as meaning that there
> would be ways to "create a new file, write in some stuff and close it"
> from the GUI, e.g. a "save stuff to a file" operation, not that he was
> asking about stuff such as file selector dialogs.
>
> I suspect he or she was assuming - incorrectly - that GLib includes file
> I/O operations similar to those provided by the standard C file I/O
> operations.
>
> It *does* include the I/O channel operations, but those don't include
> the "create a new file" operation; you'd have to do that using native OS
> calls such as "open()" and "creat()" on UNIX, and then pass the file
> descriptor you get back from "open()" or "creat()" to
> "g_io_channel_unix_new()".
>
> (Note: I've never used the GIOChannel stuff, I just know it exists and
> have looked at the page on it in the GLib on-line documentation, so
> replying to this message without CCing "gtk-list", and asking questions
> about how to use it, would be a waste of time, as I couldn't answer
> those questions.)

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