Mark Wieder wrote:
On 4/23/19 11:25 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Bob Sneidar wrote:
> NVM I just read further. Preferences is not one I can use for Windows.
The bad news is that, as you've discovered, Windows has no "Preferences"
folder per se.
The good news is that it does have a commonly-used place for that sort
of thing, and that LC's specialFolderPath function allows passing in OS
constants for all sorts of things.
In your case try specialFolderPath(26)
Others are documented here, where Ken Ray took the time to explore as
many as he could find on Mac and Windows at the time:
http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/tips/file010.htm
Some reason why specialFolderPath("preferences") on Windows doesn't just
return the value for specialFolderPath(26)? Yeah... I know... it would
be a synonym and we can't have those, but sheesh...
It seems a philosophical problem: though a folder exists for the same
purpose, it isn't "Preferences".
I'm with you, though: ease of use > literal linguistic purity.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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