Preferences files

[Thierry Arbellot]

On Win2K or XP platforms, the user may not have enough privileges to 
write files into system folder.
It's better to store preferences file in C:\Documents and Settings\All 
Users\Application Data
  = specialFolderPath(35)

 From MS documentation
CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA  (0x0023)
Version 5.0 . The file system directory containing application data for 
all users. A typical path is C:\Documents and Settings\All 
Users\Application Data.

Regards.
Thierry.

On Thursday, Jan 22, 2004, at 22:42 Europe/Paris, Mark Brownell wrote:

> On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 12:56  PM, Thomas J McGrath III 
> wrote:
>
>> If I ask the user to save a Pref file somewhere on their machine then 
>> what is the best way to get that file loaded next time they run the > 
>> CD?
>> The CD is meant for cross-platform distribution.
>
> Thomas,
>
> I do this:
>
>   if the platform is "MacOS" then
>     put specialFolderPath("preferences") into regStatGoPath
>     put regStatGoPath & "/yourpref.txt" into itX
>     if there is a file itX then
>       put URL ("file:" & itX )) into temp
>       -- put decompress(URL ("binfile:" & itX )) into temp
>     else
>       -- do something here to create one
>     end if
>   end if
>   if the platform is "Win32" then
>     put specialFolderPath("system") into regStatGoPath
>     put regStatGoPath & "/yourpref.txt" into itX
>     if there is a file itX then
>       put URL ("file:" & itX )) into temp
>       -- put decompress(URL ("binfile:" & itX )) into temp
>     else
>       -- do something here to create one
>     end if
>   end if
>
> I would also add base64 for your cross-platform distribution.
>
> Mark
>
>
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