HomeSYNOPSIS
f = filer.new()
DESCRIPTION
Returns a new filer instance. A filer is in fact a Lua table, and it is initialized by assigning values to table fields.
Assuming f is a filer instance, the following fields are understood by the filer code:
| f.path | The search path used for looking up a file. This must be a table organized as a list of strings. |
| f.shortcuts | Optionally, a list of shortcut names for each entry in f.path. This must be a table organized as a list of strings with exactly the same number of entries as f.path. Shortcuts allow drive letter like paths. If there is a shortcut named xyz, then the filer automatically adjusts any filename that begins with xyz:/ to the corresponding entry in the f.path list. |
| f.subdir | An optional sub-directory. If given, this value is implicitly appended to each component from f.path before any checks are made. |
| f.subdir | An optional language name. This is the default language sub-directory used when no language is passed to filer:lookup(). When nil, no language sub-directory is used by default. |
RETURN VALUE
A filer instance handle.
EXAMPLE
Please see the introduction page for an example.