Hi Jaqueline,
Am 30.09.2012 um 21:16 schrieb J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>:
> On 9/30/12 11:27 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>> I'm not ready to face the differences in where things go with mac &
>> windows, and dealing with the OS preferences settings.
>>
>> Is there a way that I can store and change a string in a standalone
>> stack to find the preferences file, where I can then stuff the rest?
>> Should this, perhaps, be a custom property?
>
> You can do this:
>
> if the platform = "macos" then
> put specialfolderpath("preferences") into tFolder
> else
> put specialFolderPath("0x001a") into tFolder
> end if
>
> That gives a path to the OS-approved place to store prefs. You should
> probably create a folder there named for your app and then put your file into
> that.
>
> There's been some discussion about whether Apple still wants prefs stored in
> Preferences in Mountain Lion (odd as that may seem.) To be safe on all
> versions of OS X, you may want to use this instead for Macs:
>
> put "~/Library/Application Support" into tFolder
This works on the Mac:
specialfolderpath("asup") -> "~/Library/Application Support
4 chars less to type ;-)
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
Best
Klaus
--
Klaus Major
http://www.major-k.de
kl...@major.on-rev.com
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