+ win32 fixes: check for dirent.d_type and DT_* decls

+ minor improvements: report errors with pd_error() instead of error()
+ todo (maybe): use stat() to get file types when dirent.d_type is unavailable?
  - mabe better delegate this to a different external entirely (e.g. 'stat')

svn path=/trunk/externals/moocow/; revision=11365

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/readdir/src/readdir-help.pd b/readdir/src/readdir-help.pd
index 65d3239..81335e7 100644
--- a/readdir/src/readdir-help.pd
+++ b/readdir/src/readdir-help.pd
@@ -1,41 +1,46 @@
-#N canvas 438 13 535 566 10;
+#N canvas 438 13 543 650 10;
 #X msg 89 227 close;
 #X msg 52 79 bang;
 #X msg 83 160 tell;
 #X obj 38 322 print dir-entry;
 #X obj 82 294 print end-of-directory;
 #X text 130 8 readdir : simple directory accessor;
-#X text 231 543 Bryan Jurish <moocow@ling.uni-potsdam.de>;
+#X text 245 617 Bryan Jurish <moocow@ling.uni-potsdam.de>;
 #X text 157 46 open DIR : opens the directory DIR;
-#X text 185 75 bang : outlet next directory entry;
-#X text 185 91 next : ditto;
+#X text 185 80 bang : outlet next directory entry;
+#X text 185 101 next : ditto;
 #X msg 59 101 next;
 #X msg 71 137 rewind;
 #X text 173 137 rewind : return to beginning of directory;
-#X text 188 158 tell : output current position;
-#X text 146 182 seek FLOAT : goto position FLOAT;
+#X text 187 160 tell : output current position;
+#X text 146 185 seek FLOAT : goto position FLOAT;
 #X msg 86 184 seek 0;
-#X text 181 223 close : close directory;
+#X text 181 229 close : close directory;
 #X text 258 295 2nd outlet bangs at end of directory;
 #X text 260 325 Directory entries go to 1st outlet;
 #X text 39 370 Directory entries appear as messages of the form TYPE
 NAME \, where NAME is the name of the entry \, and TYPE is one of the
 following:;
-#X text 65 515 unknown : something else;
-#X text 87 419 file : regular file;
-#X text 93 434 dir : subdirectory;
-#X text 86 450 fifo : named pipe;
-#X text 85 466 sock : local-domain socket;
-#X text 71 482 chrdev : character device;
-#X text 71 498 blkdev : block device;
+#X text 87 416 file : regular file;
+#X text 94 429 dir : subdirectory;
+#X text 87 442 fifo : named pipe;
+#X text 87 455 sock : local-domain socket;
+#X text 73 468 chrdev : character device;
+#X text 73 482 blkdev : block device;
 #X obj 38 267 readdir;
 #X msg 39 47 open /tmp;
-#X connect 0 0 27 0;
-#X connect 1 0 27 0;
-#X connect 2 0 27 0;
-#X connect 10 0 27 0;
-#X connect 11 0 27 0;
-#X connect 15 0 27 0;
-#X connect 27 0 3 0;
-#X connect 27 1 4 0;
-#X connect 28 0 27 0;
+#X text 66 495 unknown : something else (maybe a symlink);
+#X text 45 530 WARNING:;
+#X text 59 544 Recognition of directory entry types does NOT work on
+windows or any other system whose `dirent' struct is missing the `d_type'
+field. On such systems \, the TYPE selector on the first outlet is
+always the symbol `unknown'.;
+#X connect 0 0 26 0;
+#X connect 1 0 26 0;
+#X connect 2 0 26 0;
+#X connect 10 0 26 0;
+#X connect 11 0 26 0;
+#X connect 15 0 26 0;
+#X connect 26 0 3 0;
+#X connect 26 1 4 0;
+#X connect 27 0 26 0;