Locate the desktop on Mac Classic?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Mar 10 05:06:38 EST 2004


Signe Marie Sanne wrote:
> I run an application from a CD-ROM. The students can use a note book, 
> and their file shall end up either on the desktop or in a folder on the 
> desktop on Mac.
> 
> On my own Mac the harddisk is named "/signes/" whereas the first 
> component may vary on other people's computers:"Harddisk", "Mac HD" etc.
> How can I identify its name from the CD-ROM in order to write the notes' 
> file to the harddisk?

   get specialFolderPath("desktop")

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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