Finding the 'Applications' folder on a Mac

[Graham Samuel]

Gems indeed! If they always work, I wonder why the mother ship hasn’t incorporated them into the LC Dictionary. Anyway thanks Klaus, and of course thanks Ken Ray.

Graham


> On 4 Jan 2018, at 23:59, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Graham,
> 
>> Am 04.01.2018 um 23:46 schrieb Graham Samuel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> It looks to me that specialFolderPath doesn’t give a way of finding the /Applications folder on a Mac (or presumably the equivalent on a PC). If one is running a standalone which has been placed in the Applications folder, then it is possible to start with specialFolderPath(“engine”) and work back to the Applications directory, but I suspect this is fraught with uncertainty. Has anyone a solution?
> 
> ...
> put specialfolderpath("apps") into tApplicationFolder
> ...
> 
> Found this and more gemns here: <http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/tips/file010.htm>
> 
>> Graham 
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> 
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