Minor suggestion: File::isAbsolutePath()

General JUCE discussion
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Hi, I needed to check whether a path was absolute, and it looks like there is not public method for this. Looking at juce_File.cpp, I found out that this is already done in getChildFile, so what about putting it into a static public method? Here is the patch I propose:

Index: deps/juce/src/juce_core/io/files/juce_File.cpp
===================================================================
--- deps/juce/src/juce_core/io/files/juce_File.cpp	(revision 1723)
+++ deps/juce/src/juce_core/io/files/juce_File.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -233,6 +233,21 @@
 #endif
 }
 
+bool File::isAbsolutePath(const String& path)
+{
+  if (path.startsWithChar (T('/'))
+      || path.startsWithChar (T('\\'))
+#if JUCE_WIN32
+      || (path.isNotEmpty() && path[1] == T(':')))
+#else
+      || path.startsWithChar (T('~')))
+#endif
+  {
+    return true;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
 bool File::operator== (const File& other) const throw()
 {
     // case-insensitive on Windows, but not on linux.
@@ -441,13 +456,7 @@
 //==============================================================================
 const File File::getChildFile (String relativePath) const throw()
 {
-    if (relativePath.startsWithChar (T('/'))
-        || relativePath.startsWithChar (T('\\'))
-#if JUCE_WIN32
-        || (relativePath.isNotEmpty() && ((const String&) relativePath)[1] == T(':')))
-#else
-        || relativePath.startsWithChar (T('~')))
-#endif
+    if (File::isAbsolutePath(relativePath))
     {
         // the path is really absolute..
         return File (relativePath);
Index: deps/juce/src/juce_core/io/files/juce_File.h
===================================================================
--- deps/juce/src/juce_core/io/files/juce_File.h	(revision 1723)
+++ deps/juce/src/juce_core/io/files/juce_File.h	(working copy)
@@ -834,6 +834,10 @@
     */
     static bool areFileNamesCaseSensitive();
 
+    /** Indicates wheter the given path is absolute.
+    */
+    static bool isAbsolutePath(const String& path);
+    
     //==============================================================================
     juce_UseDebuggingNewOperator
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Good suggestion, thanks!

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