are now generated in user's .bbtk dir

[bbtk.git] / kernel / src / bbtkUtilities.h

diff --git a/kernel/src/bbtkUtilities.h b/kernel/src/bbtkUtilities.h
index 34d17eb508b1653aae33845c36039d241078f4f7..6d0c2cfe467a12ec6cc05f76f182e0bbb62b5fa4 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/src/bbtkUtilities.h
+++ b/kernel/src/bbtkUtilities.h
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
   Program:   bbtk
   Module:    $RCSfile: bbtkUtilities.h,v $
   Language:  C++
-  Date:      $Date: 2008/10/22 09:16:16 $
-  Version:   $Revision: 1.18 $
+  Date:      $Date: 2009/01/27 14:22:57 $
+  Version:   $Revision: 1.19 $
 =========================================================================*/
 
 /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -72,61 +72,77 @@ namespace bbtk
   /// Holds various usefull methods 
   struct BBTK_EXPORT Utilities
   {
-    
+    //  ======================================================================
+    static std::string GetExecutablePath();
+
     // ======================================================================
     // See : http://www.techbytes.ca/techbyte103.html for more O.S.
     static bool FileExists(std::string strFilename);
     
     // =====================================================================
-    
     static std::string ExtractPackageName(const std::string  &name, 
                                          std::string& path);
-
+    
     //=====================================================================
     static std::string ExtractScriptName(const std::string &name,
                                         std::string& path);
-  
+    
     // ========================================================================
-
     static std::string ExpandLibName(const std::string &name, bool verbose);
-   
-// ===================================================================================
-
-  static std::string MakeLibnameFromPath(std::string path, std::string pkgname);
- 
-// ===================================================================================
-
-  static std::string MakePkgnameFromPath(std::string path, std::string pkgname, bool addExt);
+    
+    // =======================================================================
+    static std::string MakeLibnameFromPath(std::string path, std::string pkgname);
+    
+    // =====================================================================
+    static std::string MakePkgnameFromPath(std::string path, 
+                                          std::string pkgname, bool addExt);
     //========================================================================
     
+    
     // =======================================================================
-    /// Builds the complete path to the file 'name' located 
-  /// in user settings dir, e.g. /home/username/.bbtk/
-    static std::string MakeUserSettingsFullFileName(const std::string& name);
+    /// Makes a valid filename with string (replaces invalid file seps 
+    /// by valid ones)
+    static inline void MakeValidFileName(std::string& name)
+    {
+      replace( name, 
+              INVALID_FILE_SEPARATOR , 
+              VALID_FILE_SEPARATOR);
+    }
 
+    // =======================================================================
+    /// Returns the user settings dir, e.g. /home/username/.bbtk
+    static std::string GetUserSettingsDir();
 
+    // =======================================================================
+    /// Builds the complete path to the file 'name' located 
+    /// in user settings dir, e.g. /home/username/.bbtk/
+    static std::string MakeUserSettingsFullFileName(const std::string& name);
+    
+    
     static bool IsAtRoot(std::string cwd);
     // ======================================================================
     
     static bool IsDirectory(std::string const &dirName);
-    // ===================================================================================
+
+    static void CreateDirectoryIfNeeded( std::string const &dirName);
+    // =======================================================================
     
     static void SplitAroundFirstDot( const std::string& in,
-                                            std::string& left,
+                                    std::string& left,
                                             std::string& right);
-    //=======================================================================
+    //======================================================================
     static void SplitString ( const std::string& str, 
                                     const std::string& delimiters, 
                                     std::vector<std::string>& tokens);
-    //=======================================================================
+    //====================================================================
     
     
-    // ===================================================================================
+    // ====================================================================
     
     static std::string get_file_name(const std::string& s) ;
-   
     
-    // ===================================================================================
+    
+    // ====================================================================
     /**
      * \brief   Explore a directory with possibility of recursion
      *          return number of files read
@@ -134,8 +150,8 @@ namespace bbtk
      * @param  recursive whether we want recursion or not
      */
     static int Explore(std::string const &dirpath, bool recursive, std::vector<std::string> &Filenames);
-
-
+    
+    
     //=======================================================================
     // Replaces substrings "\\n" by a real carriage return "\n"
     static void SubsBackslashN ( std::string& s );