Re: How to create a new directory?

[Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo ballabio gmail com>]

Thanks, will look into it.

Gerardo

2012/4/15 Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren gmail com>:
> Hi Gerardo,
>
> I think you're looking for Gio::File, and some of its friends:
> http://developer.gnome.org/glibmm/unstable/classGio_1_1File.html#abfa05e23e95e77cabac289ab4e294a58
>
> The most simple version is this:
> Gio::File::make_directory()
>
> Hope that helps, -Harry
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Gerardo Ballabio
> <gerardo ballabio gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> can you please tell me what is the recommended and most portable way
>> to create a new directory in a gtkmm program?
>>
>> Browsing the glibmm documentation I didn't found any interface for
>> creating a new directory.  If I read correctly, class Glib::Dir
>> provides a read-only interface that only allows to read existing
>> directories.
>>
>> I want specifically to create a directory where to store user-specific
>> data for a game (configuration settings, scores etc.).  Functions like
>> Glib::get_user_config_dir and Glib::get_user_data_dir return suggested
>> paths where to store application data (on my Debian system they are
>> $HOME/.config and $HOME/.local/share respectively), but most
>> applications don't write their files directly there: rather, they
>> create their own subdirectories.  I want to do the same.
>>
>> I might use the Unix mkdir system call, but then my program wouldn't
>> be portable to non-Unix systems.  Is there a more general solution?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>  Gerardo
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