These functions allow access to get or change the values of environment variables in a portable way.
They are currently implemented under Win32 and POSIX-like systems (Unix).
Remember that these functions add/change/delete environment variables of the current process only. Child processes copy the environment variables of the parent but do not share them (a wxSetEnv() in the parent process won't change the value returned by wxGetEnv() in the child process and viceversa).
For more evoluted interprocess communication tecniques see Interprocess Communication.
Functions | |
wxChar * | wxGetenv (const wxString &var) |
This is a macro defined as getenv() or its wide char version in Unicode mode. | |
bool | wxGetEnv (const wxString &var, wxString *value) |
Returns the current value of the environment variable var in value. | |
bool | wxSetEnv (const wxString &var, const wxString &value) |
Sets the value of the environment variable var (adding it if necessary) to value. | |
bool | wxUnsetEnv (const wxString &var) |
Removes the variable var from the environment. |
Returns the current value of the environment variable var in value.
value may be NULL if you just want to know if the variable exists and are not interested in its value.
Returns true if the variable exists, false otherwise.
Include file:
#include <wx/utils.h>
This is a macro defined as getenv()
or its wide char version in Unicode mode.
Note that under Win32 it may not return correct value for the variables set with wxSetEnv(), use wxGetEnv() function instead.
Include file:
#include <wx/utils.h>
Sets the value of the environment variable var (adding it if necessary) to value.
Notice that under Windows platforms the program may have two different environment blocks: the first one is that of a Windows process and is always present, but the CRT may maintain its own independent copy of the environment. wxSetEnv() will always update the first copy, which means that wxGetEnv(), which uses it directly, will always return the expected value after this call. But wxSetEnv() only updates the second copy for some compilers/CRT implementations (currently only MSVC) and so using wxGetenv() (notice the difference in case) may not return the updated value.
var | The environment variable to be set, must not contain '=' character. | |
value | New value of the variable. |
Include file:
#include <wx/utils.h>
bool wxUnsetEnv | ( | const wxString & | var | ) |
Removes the variable var from the environment.
wxGetEnv() will return NULL after the call to this function.
Returns true on success.
Include file:
#include <wx/utils.h>
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