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[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Warren wrote:

> For example, I recently completed a pair of file/picture chooser widgets 
> for Linux, which I offered to the Rev community. However, from the 
> beginning of my programming effort I discovered that certain fundamental 
> functions described in the Help had apparently not been implemented. For 
> example, the function specialFolderPath. I did not manage to get any 
> information whatsoever out of this function, different to my experience 
> in Windows and different (I imagine) to what it would be in Mac. As a 
> result I had to (temporarily?) direct my widgets for use in Ubuntu Linux 
> rather than Linux generally - very serious.

Just to clarify, does specialFolderPath return the proper value under 
Ubuntu?  Which constants work with it?

The docs don't mention Linux at all, while they do list the constants 
available for Classic, OS X, and Windows.  So from the docs it's not 
clear whether specialFolderPath is expected to work at all right now 
under Linux.

If it works in one flavor of Linux but not others, while momentarily 
annoying it bodes well for the future, as it implies the effort was made 
for it to work on Linux but it simply has some bugs in the current release.

This is especially interesting to me, as I'm planning on my first Linux 
release later this year.  I'll be watching Linux-related threads closely....

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