Madhur Kashyap wrote: > Mathias and Irne > > Thanks for your responses. The home folder concept is useful for setting a > current working directory (linux). > > Although my purpose was little different. I found that help in Andrew > Pitonyak's quick reference. > > OO Basic supports an API getPathSeparator() which returns "/" or "\" > depending upon what OS is used. So, my purpose has been temporarily solved.
That's completely unnecessary if you use URLs instead of path names. As most API calls in OOo use URLs anyway you also save your don't need to convert your file names when you want to use them in API calls. The biggest problem still is "sRootDir". You have to know this and so your idea to write OS agnostic code is only possible with using a "root dir" that is accessible through one of OOo's path variable, like e.g. the HOME folder. If you are not able to identify the operating system you are working on, how can you guess "sRootDir" in the correct notation? OTOH, if you know "sRootDir", you also know at least if your OS has a Windows type or a Unix type file name notation. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "nospamfor...@gmx.de". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org
