obtaining application paths

[Jim Ault]

Along the same theme of "publicly available" folders and files,  
remember that the user can set Spotlight preferences to exclude  
folders (and their contents) from being indexed, so that is not a  
reliable option either.

I would think the best way is to do an 'installer' handler, but that  
might assume no new Rev versions over the years, and deleting the  
old.  Perhaps bundle the .so files in your app so you know where they  
are.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On Mar 31, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Phil Davis wrote:

> Mark Wieder wrote:
>> Jim-
>>
>> Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 10:27:47 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What is the best way, on a Mac, to get the path to the various files
>>> included in a Rev distribution. So assuming there is Rev 2.8.1,  
>>> 2.9, 3.0
>>> etc. installed on a Mac, and without necessarily running the  
>>> version of Rev,
>>> how would you find say the revdb.so for a particular version of Rev?
>>>
>>
>> Don't know about "best", but how about:
>>
>> put "3.0.0" into tVersion
>> put shell("locate revdb.so") into tFiles
>> filter tFiles with "*/" & tVersion & "*"
>>
>> as long as the locate file database has been updated recently.
>>
>>
> However (if I understand correctly), locate only returns file paths  
> on *publicly available* volumes. I used it to look for one of my Rev  
> standalones; it missed everything except the copies on my external  
> HDs. I used 'find' to get paths on my internal (non-public) HD and  
> again just in my user account - it worked, but it's very slow. It  
> walks all directory trees.
> -- 
> Phil Davis
>
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