Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andreas, Bennett, Jean-Marc, > > I wonder if you can help me out. I'm trying to write the function below. It > is meant to return a string that contains the absolute path to a > directory. Note that this directory need not yet exist. > > string const get_default_user_lyxdir(string const & homedir) ... > I have two questions for Mac OSX. > 1. What should a typical returned value be?
/Users/NAME/.lyx (POSIX std) or /Users/NAME/Library/Preferences/LyX (this place is mainly used by *.plist files) or /Users/NAME/Library/Application Support/LyX (eg. FireFox stores its profiles near this place) I would guess. > 2. What's the code I need to return such a value? > > Jean-Marc has suggested that I use FSFindFolder, but this fills an FSRef > variable with some opaque data usable only by the File Manager, not by me, > the user. See the FSFindFolder docs at http://tinyurl.com/5mvgn. > Nonetheless, a naÃve implementation (mine) would be > > FSRef fsref; > OSErr const error_code = > FSFindFolder(kUserDomain, > kPreferencesFolderType, > kDontCreateFolder, > &fsref); > > Is it possible to take this filled fsref variable and extract the absolute > path to the folder in question? What system function would I need to do > this? >From the FileManager docs I would guess FSRefMakePath. It sais it produces POSIX paths. > > Alternatively, it seems that I might use GetFolderName. (See the Functions As I understood this function yields the user interface name for this folder. Eg. "Programme" instead of "/Applications". Don't use it. > > Further, have I got the correct values with "kUserDomain" and > "kPreferencesFolderType"? Looks ok from the docs. > > Basically, I'm looking for someone with access to a Mac to write the code > for me Do you have a patch against 1.4cvs? :-) /Andreas
