wxFileDialog::SetWildcard() and case sensitivity

Robin Dunn robin at alldunn.com
Wed Sep 5 12:54:33 PDT 2007


Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:02:17 +0200 Robert Roebling wrote:
> 
> RR> > Also, some people may want to treat their extensions case-sensitively (.c
> RR> > vs .C for example) so we should probably have an option for this, although
> RR> > I'd be for treating them case-insensitively, for consistency with the other
> RR> > platforms, by default.
> RR> 
> RR> Isn't OS X case sensitive as well?
> 
>  I don't think so, although I'm not sure. I believe OS X is, as Windows,
> case-preserving but not case-sensitive.

It depends on the file system that the partitions are formatted with. 
The default "MacOS Extended" is not case sensitive, although it does 
have a case-sensitive alternative.  There is also the "UNIX File System" 
which is also case sensitive.

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