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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Really?!? This is sort of minor, but annoying

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Ancient Lady
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Posted: 29th May 2013 22:38
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While adding a game save/restore feature, I needed to be able to delete a file.

No biggy, there is a DeleteFile command, right?

Except, in Windows it is apparently 'DeleteFileA'.

And for all other platforms it is 'DeleteFile'.

Okay, so #ifdef makes it better.

But, really now, this should not happen.

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Naphier
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Posted: 29th May 2013 23:33
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You tell 'em!

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JimHawkins
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Posted: 30th May 2013 00:50
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That's a straight pass-through of the Windows API. DeleteFileA is an ANSI filename, DeleteFileW is a Unicode filename, and DeleteFile is the default for that compiler.

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Ancient Lady
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Posted: 30th May 2013 04:51
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Maybe.

But the commands I have to use are 'agk:eleteFileA("file")' and 'agk:eleteFile("file")'.

Given that there is no distinction for platform in the C++ version of the online help, you'd think that the agk:: command would be consistent.

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JimHawkins
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Posted: 30th May 2013 10:12
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True. That should be fixed ASAP.

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Paul Johnston
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Posted: 30th May 2013 18:19
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The AppGameKit command is agk:eleteFile( const char* ) on all platforms. Windows is using a define to make it look like DeleteFileA but if you look at the definition in Wrapper.h it is actually DeleteFile.
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Ancient Lady
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Posted: 30th May 2013 18:42
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Ahh!!

When I was typing in the command, the list that displayed did NOT show 'DeleteFile'. It only showed 'DeleteFileA'.

But, just now, after ignoring what was shown and simply leaving it at 'DeleteFile', it compiled just fine.

So, it is a Visual Studio quirk.

Thank you for correcting me.

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