Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
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Organizing a Virtual
Filesystem
File
: An object that can be written to, or read from, or both. A ile has certain
attributes, including type. Common types of iles include regular iles and
directories. Other types of iles, such as symbolic links, may be supported by the
implementation.
Filesystem
: A collection of iles and certain of their attributes.
(Boost documentation,
http://www.boost.org
)
In this chapter we will cover:
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Abstracting ile streams
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Implementing portable memory-mapped iles
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Implementing ile writers
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Working with in-memory iles
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Implementing mount points
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Enumerating iles in the .zip archives
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Decompressing iles from the .zip archives
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Loading resources asynchronously
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Storing application data
