Skip Kimpel via use-livecode wrote
> On 03/22/2017 12:46 PM, BNig via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> tinyDictionary tries on preopenCard -> loadPreferences to find via
>> put specialFolderPath("support") into tFolderSupport
>> an "application support" folder and there a "LcTinyDict" folder where it
>> tries to create a txt file "tinyPrefs.txt"
>>
>> This is in the card script.
>>
>> If it can not create the folder then the alert appears. I don't know
>> anything about Linux and where that folder might be. Or may be it is a
>> permission thing?
>
> Ah.
> The good folks at LC haven't found it neccesary to allow more than a
> handful of folderIdentifiers for linux. And in spite of what the
> documentation says, the result is *not* set to "folder not found" when a
> non-supported or nonexistent folderIdentifier is specified - it's just
> empty, which is somewhat less useful.
>
> I default saving preferences files to the directory where the saving
> stack lives, and normally that's my user Plugins folder, and I use the
> undocumented (http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16189)
> revEnvironmentUserPluginsPath() function to get those.
>
> --
> Mark Wieder
>
> ahsoftware@
Thanks Mark,
I will try to implement revEnvironmentUserPluginsPath() function for Linux
in the next version
Kind regards
Bernd
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