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

[Mark Wieder]

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...

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  Mark Wieder
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