specialFolderPath("preferences") returns empty on Windows???

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Wieder wrote:
> On 4/23/19 11:25 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>> Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> 
>>  > NVM I just read further. Preferences is not one I can use for Windows.
>> 
>> The bad news is that, as you've discovered, Windows has no "Preferences" 
>> folder per se.
>> 
>> The good news is that it does have a commonly-used place for that sort 
>> of thing, and that LC's specialFolderPath function allows passing in OS 
>> constants for all sorts of things.
>> 
>> In your case try specialFolderPath(26)
>> 
>> Others are documented here, where Ken Ray took the time to explore as 
>> many as he could find on Mac and Windows at the time:
>> 
>> http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/tips/file010.htm
>> 
> 
> Some reason why specialFolderPath("preferences") on Windows doesn't just 
> return the value for specialFolderPath(26)? Yeah... I know... it would 
> be a synonym and we can't have those, but sheesh...

It seems a philosophical problem:  though a folder exists for the same 
purpose, it isn't "Preferences".

I'm with you, though: ease of use > literal linguistic purity.

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