Frankly, the only reason the GUI needs to bother with file_handles, is
that it's currently the only way to call sfm_open_{reader,writer}.
I'd be happier to add a function to these modules, which takes a
filename instead of a file_handle (and the same for pfm_open). Then
I don't need to use file handles at all.
Do you think that would be a better solution?
J'
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 03:29:11PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can understand where you're comming from. How would you feel about
> the GUI just re-using the same file handle? In many ways that would
> make more sense, because currently, whenever the GUI opens a new file,
> I'm destroying the old file handle, and immediately recreating it,
> which seems cumersome. So can you see any problem with a function
> which associates a new filename with a handle. Perhaps it would have
> to do some checks first, like closing the old file if it was open.
I don't have any objection to changing the file name associated
with a handle, if it's only used by the GUI for that specialized
purpose. I think in general-purpose use it could have problems
related to those in destroying file handles.
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