[Lazarus] GetAllFilesMask / AllFilesMask

[Bart]

On 4/28/13, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:

> The problem with all this is, that Microsoft is not consistent to itself.

:-)

> The only solution I see is to be consistent within Free Pascal and use an
> internal routine to define a (logical and pratical) syntax of file masks.
> This way it is also possible to have the same mask for different OS's
> because all Free Pascal programmers can rely on the same routine to find
> matches.

But you must consider the end user.
If on Windows someone types *.* in my program, he expects to find all
files, but on Linux, the user will expect to find only files that have
a dot in it's name somewhere.

Bart