Class: ApplicationWithFileHistory

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • file history support
  • queries

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Model
      |
      +--ApplicationModel
         |
         +--ApplicationWithFileHistory
            |
            +--AbstractFileBrowser

Package:

stx:libview2

Category:

Interface-Framework

Version:

rev: 1.9 date: 2022/03/24 14:34:21

user: cg

file: ApplicationWithFileHistory.st directory: libview2

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libview2

Description:

Support code for applications with a persistent history of 
previously opened files.

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 2013 by Claus Gittinger
             All Rights Reserved

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Class protocol:

 addToFileHistory: aFilename

remember a filename in this classes filehistory

 directoryForFileHistory

the filename where the history is made persistent

Usage example(s):

self directoryForFileHistory => UnixFilename('/Users/exept/.smalltalk/ApplicationWithFileHistory') (PersistentFileHistory newForClass:self) directoryForFileHistory => UnixFilename('/Users/exept/.smalltalk/ApplicationWithFileHistory')

 fileHistory

confusing: the first fetches my ref to the persistent store;
the second actually gets the list

 fileHistoryFilteredForStillExistingFilesDo: aBlock removeNonExisting: aBoolean

 fileHistorySize

defines the number of remembered files in the history

 flushFileHistory

self withAllSubclassesDo:#flushFileHistory

 initializeFileHistory

 makeFileHistoryPersistent

 registryKeyForApplication

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Exept\SmalltalkX\<appname>

Usage example(s):

FileBrowserV2 registryKeyForApplication FileBrowserV2 registryKeyForFileHistory

 registryKeyForFileHistory

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Exept\SmalltalkX\<appName>\History

Usage example(s):

self registryKeyForFileHistory

 isAbstract

Return if this class is an abstract class.
True is returned here for myself only; false for subclasses.
Abstract subclasses must redefine this again.