Re: [Alephmodular-devel] CFileDesc landed

[Woody Z. I. <woo...@sb...>]

Just so you don't think all your text is going to /dev/null or 
something... I've been reading your notes with interest, and wanted to 
say it sounds like things are going very well.  Congratulations and keep 
up the good work :)

A couple questions:

Is there a way to change one's mind with the safe-save business?  i.e. 
can I open a file for writing, do some stuff, then say "oops never 
mind!" and get rid of the file without it actually going through with 
the swap?

Also, I know you keep saying file browsing is a platform-specific thing, 
but... a from-scratch file browser would probably quite benefit from the 
ability to navigate_up() (and then could browse using your FileDesc 
stuff directly rather than having to implement a parallel set of 
routines on the platform).  Is there any compelling reason to _not_ have 
it in the interface?

What's next?  :)  Whatever it is, looking forward to it...  :)

Woody


On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 07:03  PM, Br'fin wrote:

> And there, safe saving should be in the mix as well. Nice and sweet to 
> implement with only one gotcha with resources. Specifically the preview 
> resources added to save games.
>
> And it's always there, whenever you open a file for writing. 
> Automagically.
> I just find the concept so cool :)