On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Tonny Kohar wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:00 AM, DM Smith <dmsmith...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Tonny Kohar wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Tonny Kohar <tonny.ko...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:06 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Both MacSword and JSword will set the install location to
~/Library/Application Support/Sword.
Just quick questions, is that Mac OSX location (~/Library/
Application
Support/Sword) is mapped into env variable which is accesssible/
able
to get the value from System.getProperties (java program) ? or it
must
be hard coded ?
Almost forgot, Does the mentioned path above is in English
(~/Library/Application/Support/Sword) ?
Does Mac OSX allow folder path to be put using other language eg:
chinese/japanese/etc.
ps: Windows allows folder and file path/name using other language.
Tonny,
I didn't know about the alternate languages for Windows. No one has
reported
a problem yet. My hope is that Windows uses "Application Data"
regardless of
language, as this folder is created by the OS.
The code JSword uses is here:
http://crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk/common/src/main/java/org/crosswire/common/util/OSType.java
A couple of things:
1) The java property os.name is used to determine the kind of OS.
OSType.fromString(System.getProperty("os.name")) will figure out
what the OS
is.
2) The static OSType.getOSType() will return the proper OSType for
the
machine.
3) Given the proper OSType for the machine, the method:
getUserAreaFolder(".sword", "Sword")
will return a complete path to the appropriately named folder in
the OSes
app data area for the user.
4) the path is based upon the Java property user.home, which can be
changed
via -Duser.home=/somewhere/else. This is very useful.
It is typically called in this fashion:
URI appDataArea = OSType.getOSType().getUserAreaFolder(".jsword",
"JSword");
For my home computer, this evaluates to
"file:///Users/DM/Library/Application Support/JSword"
On windows, I get something like "file:///c:/Documents and
Settings/dm/Application Data/JSword".
Elsewhere (Linux, BSD, ...), I get "file:///home/dmsmith/.jsword".
(I might have too many or few /// in file:/// :)
There are a couple of places that Mac specific behavior needs to be
added
(e.g. placing preferences on the proper menu) so the following
construct can
be used:
if (OSType.MAC.equals(OSType.getOSType()))
{
.... do something Mac specific ...
}
Thanks for the info it is very appreciated. Look like I have some
coding to do for Alkitab to follow the spec :)
Another questions, once the spec is decided (for module path). What is
your plan, do you will put it on the (JSword/Sword) as API or it will
be handled by the application itself (BD, Alkitab, etc) ?
Sorry for the late response. I had to dig this (and 50 others out of
my spam folder).
It will be put in the JSword library.
In Him,
DM
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