dirent.h

Hi.

While there is no dirent.h in standard ansi C.

- how can I list the content of a folder in C with acorn C compiler
- how can I know if a file is a folder or a regular file.
- And how can I know the type of a file (ObeyFile, TextFile, Image,…)

Thank’s.
Etienne.

PS: A specific forum for C developper (and another for basic developper) could be cool into this forum, because I do not know in which forum I should post this message !
Thank’s

- how can I list the content of a folder in C with acorn C compiler

OS_GBPB – https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/OS_GBPB%2012

- how can I know if a file is a folder or a regular file.

When? When scanning the directory? If so, GBPB will tell you (buffer offset +16), otherwise try OS_File – https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/OS_File%2023
Watch out for image files that are both a file and a directory.

- And how can I know the type of a file (ObeyFile, TextFile, Image,…)

Same as the above, though filetype is offset +20. Watch out for files that have no type, but instead the load/exec addresses. The *SAVE command makes files like these..

because I do not know in which forum I should post this message !

Traffic is low enough here that I don’t think we need extra forums by language. That said, I’m not entirely sure there is much technical difference between “General” and “Community support”. Logically your message probably should have gone into Community support as you’re asking for help, but then what’s General for?

It’s cold, it’s Saturday, there are more important things to worry about… ;-)

Whaoooo

Thank’s Rick.
I have some extra questions !

First of all! How could I had found this SWI page without asking the question here ?

The second question is.
While this page
https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/OS%20SWI%20Calls
is a wiki page !!!

Can I start new pages in order to translate all OS-SWI in French ?
And adding some sample !

I could be great to find sample when your are looking for “riscos opendir” into google !

First of all! How could I had found this SWI page without asking the question here ?

Reading the PRMs? Looking at source code? Asking on a forum? :-)

This is a good intro: http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/docs/wimp/index.html

Can I start new pages in order to translate all OS-SWI in French ?

It might be best to send an email to ROOL if you’re serious about French translations, because it may be tidier to have a namespace for French, something like /wiki/documentation/show/fr/etcetc (can the wiki do this?)

Too late :)
I’ve started in order to see if it is a very long work or not !

https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/OS_GBPB%20(fran%C3%A7ais)

Need approximatively a quarter of hour to translate a page.

I learn a lot of thinks doing this :)
I’ll finish OS_GBPB translation tomorrow !

https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/OS_GBPB%20(français)

hum it seem’s the link doesn’t works in the forum!

Yes, space is a non-starter.

Whereas this works better:

https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/fr/OS_GBPB

I note Etienne has translated a couple of other pages. It might be an idea to wait until there is a consensus as to the syntax of the filename. The link above uses an fr/ prefix, which works, even though the wiki unnecessarily encodes the slash.

While there is no dirent.h in standard ansi C

The doom source code requires opendir() etc so for my port I had to write some veneers to allow it to work.

See file “acorn.c” in the source at https://sites.google.com/site/jeffreyadoggett/

Thank’s Jeff.

nemo. the problem is not due to the space.
It’s due to the forum who do not understand that (français) is a part of the link!
The link parser do not accept ( char as a valid URL char.

I show your proposition for the naming.
fr/OS_GBPB
instead of
OS_GBPB (français)

The problem in that you could think the name of the SWI is fr/OS_GBPB
but the choice doen’t matter for me !

I’ll try to finish OS_GBPB translation today.

The problem in that you could think the name of the SWI is fr/OS_GBPB

Yes, it’s not ideal is it. Anyway, I’m not in charge. Perhaps our generous hosts could make an official judgement.

The problem in that you could think the name of the SWI is fr/OS_GBPB

Indeed. That’s why I think the wiki admin may need to sort out a namespace for French (so the fr/ becomes invisible).

The problem is that brackets are not really a valid part of a URL according to most things. Textile doesn’t consider it to be a part of a URL, neither does my Android phone – that email I posted to the RISC OS Fr mailing list last night? When it came back to me, following the link presented took me to the “edit new page” screen as the brackets were not counted in the URL…

Rick.

If we do that, will it still be possible to link a french page to is english version.
All the page seems to be store into https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/ !