[Qt-creator] Dev: IFile to IDocument renaming

[André Pönitz]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 09:39:08AM -0800, Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 February 2012 06:39:23 eike.ziller at nokia.com wrote:
> > Hi all devs!
> > 
> > Because I've been saying "imagine a IFile more to be a document instead of
> > a file" too often now, I want to take the consequential step and rename
> > IFile to IDocument. This will of course affect a few other APIs as well,
> > e.g. FileManager to DocumentManager with many method name changes,
> > IEditor::file() to IEditor::document(), and IFile::isReadOnly() to
> > IDocument::isFileReadOnly(), just to name a few.
> > 
> > You find the preliminary change here:
> > http://codereview.qt-project.org/16331 I'd like to push this change on
> > coming monday, 20.2.
> 
> Hi Eike,
> 
> Thanks for letting us know, I didn't look at the reivew but it's changing a 
> lot of files indeed.
> Maye my english is not as good as I would like, but what's the difference 
> between a file and a document (in QtC context).

A "Document" does not necessarily have a file backing it. Think of
things like the Memory or Disassembler view in the debugger.

Andre'