[Freeciv-Dev] Re: client string options: choosing from a list (v2) (PR#1856)

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:24:43PM -0700, jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Here is a new version of the patch.
> 
> Changes:
> 
> - Fixed bugs when there are no available choices for
> the strings.
> 
> - Changed some char** to const char**.
> 
> - Added #defines for ".tilespec" and ".spec",
> simultaneously removing an arbitrary string-length
> restriction of 16.  (As a side note, I wish it were
> .sndspec instead of .spec for sound sets.  Changing
> this should now just require changing the #define, but
> backwards-compatability would be broken.)
> 
> - Instead of hard-coding the list of sound plugins,
> loop over the available plugins to assemble the list.

> - Removed the use of scandir().  glob() is now used
> instead.  This is at least a POSIX standard, although
> it may still not work on non-POSIX systems.  But what
> alternatives are there?

readdir(3) is in SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3. You have to do the matching
by yourself however.

        Raimar

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