Annotation of libwww/Library/src/HTNDir.html, revision 2.6

2.1       frystyk     1: <HTML>
                      2: <HEAD>
2.6     ! frystyk     3:   <!-- Changed by: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, 23-Mar-1996 -->
        !             4:   <TITLE>W3C Reference Library libwww News/NNTP Browsing</TITLE>
2.1       frystyk     5: </HEAD>
                      6: <BODY>
2.6     ! frystyk     7: <H1>
        !             8:   Generic News/NNTP Browsing
        !             9: </H1>
2.1       frystyk    10: <PRE>
                     11: /*
                     12: **     (c) COPYRIGHT MIT 1995.
                     13: **     Please first read the full copyright statement in the file COPYRIGH.
                     14: */
                     15: </PRE>
2.6     ! frystyk    16: <P>
        !            17: This news browser generates listings for NNTP reponses. This module contains
        !            18: the protocol independent code and it produces the HTML object. It is only
        !            19: included if the <A HREF="HTNews.html">NNTP</A>.
        !            20: <P>
        !            21: This module is implemented by <A HREF="HTNDir.c">HTNDir.c</A>, and it is
        !            22: a part of the <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Library/"> W3C Reference
        !            23: Library</A>.
2.1       frystyk    24: <PRE>
                     25: #ifndef HTNDIR_H
                     26: #define HTNDIR_H
                     27: #include "HTReq.h"
                     28: </PRE>
2.6     ! frystyk    29: <H2>
        !            30:   What Should the Listings Look Like?
        !            31: </H2>
        !            32: <P>
        !            33: You can set how the listings are to be sorted using the following flags.
2.1       frystyk    34: <PRE>
                     35: typedef enum _HTNewsDirKey {
2.2       frystyk    36:     HT_NDK_NONE                = 0,                    /* Unsorted */
                     37:     HT_NDK_INDEX       = 1,                    /* Sort by Message Number */
                     38:     HT_NDK_DATE        = 2,                    /* Sort by date */
                     39:     HT_NDK_SUBJECT     = 3,                    /* Sort by Subject */
                     40:     HT_NDK_FROM                = 4,                    /* Sort by Sender */
2.6     ! frystyk    41:     HT_NDK_GROUP       = 5,                    /* Sort group listing */
        !            42:     HT_NDK_REFTHREAD    = 6  /* Sort messages by date and thread Added by MP */
2.1       frystyk    43: } HTNewsDirKey;
                     44: </PRE>
2.6     ! frystyk    45: <H2>
        !            46:   The News Listing Object
        !            47: </H2>
        !            48: <P>
        !            49: The news listing object handles the generation of a news listing. It is a
        !            50: bit like a stream in that it accept data, but it must be formatted in a special
        !            51: way which makes the normal stream architecture inadequate.
        !            52: <H3>
        !            53:   Create a News Listing Object
        !            54: </H3>
        !            55: <P>
        !            56: Creates a structured stream object and sets up the initial HTML stuff Returns
        !            57: the dir object if OK, else NULL
2.1       frystyk    58: <PRE>
                     59: typedef struct _HTNewsDir HTNewsDir;
2.3       frystyk    60: extern HTNewsDir * HTNewsDir_new (HTRequest * request, const char * title,
2.6     ! frystyk    61:                                  HTNewsDirKey key, BOOL cache);
2.1       frystyk    62: </PRE>
2.6     ! frystyk    63: <H3>
        !            64:   Add a Line to the List
        !            65: </H3>
        !            66: <P>
        !            67: This function accepts a news line. Everything except dir and nama can can
        !            68: be 0 or NULL. Returns YES if OK, else NO
        !            69: <PRE>
        !            70: typedef struct _HTNewsNode HTNewsNode;
        !            71: extern HTNewsNode * HTNewsDir_addElement (HTNewsDir * dir, int index,
        !            72:                                           char * subject,
        !            73:                                          char * from, time_t date,
        !            74:                                           char * name,
        !            75:                                          int refs, HTList * refNames);
        !            76: extern HTNewsNode * HTNewsDir_addGroupElement (HTNewsDir * dir, char * group,
        !            77:                                                BOOL tmplate);
        !            78: </PRE>
        !            79: <H3>
        !            80:   Check Whether Group Belongs to the Group Set
        !            81: </H3>
        !            82: <P>
        !            83: Returns TRUE if group belongs to set, e.g. group "soc.rec.jokes" belongs
        !            84: to the set "soc.rec.*". Added by MP
        !            85: <PRE>extern BOOL HTNewsDir_belongsToSet (HTNewsDir* dir, char* group);
        !            86: </PRE>
        !            87: <H3>
        !            88:   Free a News Listing Object
        !            89: </H3>
        !            90: <P>
        !            91: If we are sorting then do the sorting and put out the list, else just append
        !            92: the end of the list.
2.1       frystyk    93: <PRE>
                     94: extern BOOL HTNewsDir_free (HTNewsDir * dir);
                     95: </PRE>
                     96: <PRE>
                     97: #endif /* HTNDIR */
                     98: </PRE>
2.6     ! frystyk    99: <P>
        !           100:   <HR>
2.5       frystyk   101: <ADDRESS>
2.6     ! frystyk   102:   @(#) $Id: HTNDir.html,v 2.5 1996/04/12 17:48:06 frystyk Exp $
2.5       frystyk   103: </ADDRESS>
2.6     ! frystyk   104: </BODY></HTML>

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