VFS SUCKS!!!

[Recon]

Just want to say that i am sick of seeing
"Segment Fault"  and tring to make sence of how to use VFS

Regards

[jorrit]

Just want to say that i am sick of seeing
"Segment Fault"  and tring to make sence of how to use VFS

Regards







Can you be more specific about your problem? Did you try to debug in a debugger where it is crashing? What is the code you are using that is not working?

Greetings,

[Recon]

Just want to make this a more positave post.

My problem with VFS was it's like a black hole. In that stuff goes in but never comes out.
As it's the first thing any beginner is going to have to deal with I found the doc's lacked some simple example code to help. Spend a long time looking at segment faults not knowing if the VFS had mounted my files or not. Alter a long time i looking I found a list function in viewtest. As soon as i could see directly what was in VFS things got so much easer.


 // Print out dirs list
   printf ("Dirs\n");
   csRef<iStringArray> dirs = VFS->GetMounts ();
   for (i=0; i < dirs->GetSize(); i++)   
   printf ("%s \n", dirs->Get(i));   
   printf ("\n");

   VFS->ChDir ("/solworld/factories");
  // Print out dir-contents
   printf ("Files\n");
   csRef<iStringArray> files = VFS->FindFiles ("*");
   for (i=0; i < files->GetSize(); i++)   
       printf ("%s \n", files->Get(i));   
   printf ("\n");

this little piece of code did more for me that all the doc's on the VFS system.

Regards, VFS works it just hard to tell when it's working and what is in it.

[Recon]

learned two new things about VFS today

one
     you can use the  vfh[exe] program from cs to browes you VFS setup, copy it to your application directory and run it.

two
    when using
                // Load application-specific configuration file.
              if (!csInitializer::SetupConfigManager(r,
                                "/this/vfs.cfg", GetApplicationName()) )

the file must be called "vfs.cfg" or any mount commands in the cfg file will not work !!!!

regards