fstream and wxFile: is it the same?

[deck]

Hi all, I have a program that declares a file as

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fstream DataFile;
DataFile.open(FileName, ios::in | ios::out | ios:: trunc |
         ios::binary);

Could I have problems if I declared it like

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wxFile DataFile;
DataFile.Open(FileName, wxFile::read_write);

Thank you

[Jorg]

streams and files are not similar. wxFile is derived from the file functionality in stdio.h (I believe) and streams are really a C++ STL concept, which can be emulated using wxStream and the likes. Look up these in the documentation to see what derived streams are present.

- Jorgen

[deck]

yes, but the program seems to be working fine, so no problem!

[krzysiek_t]

Everything as expected. std::fstream and wxFile are different classes but in general they do the same. So effects are the same too.