is it safe to hardwire the "downloads" folder?

[Roger Eller]

Since it varies a little between versions of Windows, you can list them all.

   put 0 into t
   repeat for 60
      put t & tab & specialFolderPath(t) & cr after fld 1
      add 1 to t
   end repeat

It looks like you will just have to append "/downloads" to
specialFolderPath(40)... or the users home folder.

~Roger

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

> Tiemo Hollmann wrote:
>
>  I am looking for the best folder to download updates for my program on win
>> and mac.
>>
>
> The good news is that the friendly constants LiveCode provides for access
> to special folders is only a subset of the most commonly-used ones.  Ken
> Ray took the time to document many others that can be used on both OS X and
> Windows:
> <http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/tips/file010.htm>
>
> The bad news is that I don't see the Downloads folder among them, nor
> could I turn it up in Apple's docs.
>
> It may be that no constant for Downloads was defined for the Carbon API,
> so it wouldn't be accessible to us until that part of the LC engine is
> updated for Cocoa.
>
> Or it may be that it's simply documented in a place I couldn't find. :)
>
> If you can find it, use it.  If not, I'd probably opt for a different
> folder just to be save.
>
> If this is a file you want the user to interact with, then you may want to
> risk hard-wiring "Downloads", or use the Desktop folder.
>
> If it's only for your app to draw from to update itself, most
> self-updating apps use a temp folder, which may be a good idea here since
> tmp gets cleaned by the system between sessions in case anything goes wrong
> and your app doesn't have a chance to clean up after itself.
>
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