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paupav

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Auto creating folder if it doesn't exist
« on: December 28, 2014, 02:43:58 pm »
When you are saving something like screenshot using sf::RenderWindow::Capture() and when you are trying to save it to some folder and if that folder doesn't exist, why doesn't it get create it?
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Re: Auto creating folder if it doesn't exist
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2014, 02:56:55 pm »
Because SFML is not a filesystem library, and therefore it doesn't manage this kind of extra behavior.
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Re: Auto creating folder if it doesn't exist
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2014, 05:07:24 pm »
Because it's a very obscure/rarely needed feature and there is no easy way to do it without either a filesystem library or OS specific calls.
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Re: Auto creating folder if it doesn't exist
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2014, 05:13:03 pm »
Also, some users might explicitly want the folder not to be created. This is much better handled in user code rather than in the library.
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