LC application running on lab computers

[Peter Bogdanoff]

Thanks all! I’ll check these out.

Peter


> On Mar 27, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> These are the public ones on Win 10:
> 
> 25 C:/Users/Public/Desktop
> 46 C:/Users/Public/Documents
> 53 C:/Users/Public/Music
> 54 C:/Users/Public/Pictures
> 55 C:/Users/Public/Videos
> 
> Used this in the message box:
> 
> put empty into msg;repeat with i = 1 to 100;if specialFolderPath(i) contains "public" then put i&&specialFolderPath(i) &cr after msg;end repeat
> 
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Klaus major-k via use-livecode
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:04 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Cc: Klaus major-k
> Subject: Re: LC application running on lab computers
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
>> Am 27.03.2019 um 21:59 schrieb Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> My application is being installed on Windows machines in a school lab. The admin is having trouble because I’m writing preference files to the Users\<user>\ folder and when another user logs in, the file is not available. This may be a problem in the future for Macs as well. These same preference files should be accessed by all users.
>> 
>> The specialFolderPath functions don’t seem to have one for a root level Library/Preferences folder. Is there otherwise a best, or even workable practice for this scenario?
> 
> you could use these 2 undocumented specialfolderpath() codes for Windows:
> -> specialFolderPath(35) -> prefs folder for ALL users
> -> specialfolderpath(26) -> dito for the current user only!
> 
> Not sure this is still working on Win 10, but worth a try. :-) Check this in the IDE with the messagebox:
> put specialFolderPath(35)
> 
>> Peter Bogdanoff
>> ArtsInteractive
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> 
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> Klaus Major
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> klaus at major-k.de
> 
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