Class: FileOperation

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Class protocol
  • defaults
  • instance creation
  • queries
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • dialogs & helpers
  • initialization
  • queries
• Private classes

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--FileOperation
      |
      +--FileOperation::Copy
      |
      +--FileOperation::Create
      |
      +--FileOperation::Delete
      |
      +--FileOperation::Move
      |
      +--FileOperation::Rename

Package:

stx:libtool

Category:

Interface-Support

Version:

rev: 1.109 date: 2017/12/01 00:01:34

user: cg

file: FileOperation.st directory: libtool

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libtool

Description:

file operations which may run in the background

CopyCorrupt:
    tries to skip over bad sectors in the input file, by skipping them and
    writing them as zeros. Used for partial recovering of old disks and tapes.

Erase:
    fill file with zeros (to be really erased from the disk) before removing.
    We use this, if the file contains security relevant data (such as crypto-keys)

[instance variables:]
    actionForAll .......... a 3-state (true/false/nil) flag, which controls if the current
                            action should be performed for all remaining files
                            (i.e. if deleting, and 'Same for all' was checked, and deletion was confirmed,
                             the remaining files are also deleted without asking again).
                            If nil, the operation will ask again for the next file.

    result ................ boolean outcome                            

  In Create:        
    createdFile ........... name of created file/directory (name as given by user)                            
    
[class variables:]

Related information:

Class protocol:

 suffixForCopyOverExistingFile

 copyCorruptedFile: aSourceFile to: aDestFile

 copyFile: aSourceFile to: aDestFile withOverWriteWarning: overWriteWarningBoolean copyFileIfSame: copyIfSameBoolean

 copyFiles: aColOfSourceFiles to: aDirectory

 createDirectoryIn: aDirectory

 createDirectoryIn: aDirectory initialAnswer: defaultAnswer

 createFileIn: aDirectory

 createHardLinkIn: dir

 createLinkIn: dir soft: soft

 createSoftLinkIn: dir

 deleteFiles: colOfFiles confirm: confirm

 eraseFiles: colOfFiles confirm: confirm

 moveFile: aSourceFile to: aDestFile

 moveFiles: aCollectionOfFiles to: aDestDirectory

 new

(comment from inherited method)
return an instance of myself without indexed variables

 renameFile: filename to: newFileString

 renameFiles: aCollectionofFilenames

 isAbstract

Instance protocol:

 errorString

 errorString: something

 result

 result: aBoolean

Modified (format): / 30-11-2017 / 14:18:02 / cg

 checkDirectoryExists: aDirectory

 fileExistsDialogForNewFile: newFile oldFile: oldFile withCancel: withCancel

return true, if the file should be moved/copied.
Ask user if oldFile exists.

 fileExistsDialogForNewFile: newFile oldFile: oldFile withCancel: withCancel withRemoveIfSame: withRemoveIfSame

return true, if the file should be moved/copied.
If oldFile exists, ask user.
If withRemoveIfSame is true, two additional possible values are returned:
#removeSource and #removeDestination.

 fileExistsDialogForNewFile: newFile oldFile: oldFile withCancel: withCancel withRemoveIfSame: withRemoveIfSame withAllAction: withAllAction

return true, if the file should be moved/copied.
If oldFile exists, ask user.
If withRemoveIfSame is true, two additional possible values are returned:
#removeSource and #removeDestination.

 initialize

(comment from inherited method)
just to ignore initialize to objects which do not need it

 isErase

Private classes:

    Copy
    CopyCorrupted
    Create
    Delete
    Erase
    Move
    Rename