AW: AW: Where to write application data

2013-06-14 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Gesendet: Montag, 10. Juni 2013 09:46 An: 'How to use LiveCode' Betreff: AW: AW: Where to write application data Noop, I just realized that the path in the original post was read specialFolderPath (Home) ... So this is again a user based path. What I need is a application based path like

Re: AW: AW: Where to write application data

2013-06-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/14/13 5:34 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Just FYI: With the kind advice of Runrev I finally found my wanted location. I will store my application files for all users in: specialFolderPath (sdat) what is: /Users/Shared/ MyCompany/MyAppBundleID/MyFiles I still have to set the read/write

AW: AW: Where to write application data

2013-06-10 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thank you Jacqueline for your clear advice! Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von J. Landman Gay Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Juni 2013 19:19 An: How to use LiveCode Betreff: Re: AW: Where to write application data

AW: AW: Where to write application data

2013-06-10 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
: AW: Where to write application data On 6/7/13 7:37 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Would /Library/Application Support/MyCompany/MyAppBundleID/ also be the best place for 8GB of video data, though it aren't prefence files or where would you store this kind of data? Yes, that's where

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-07 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 06/06/2013, at 12:40 PM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: For desktop applications, where can our applications legally write to for the three main OS's? I'm not talking about sandboxing for Mac App Store apps, just the normal place for writing application files. Hello, Devin, Not

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-07 Thread Peter Haworth
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@semperuna.comwrote: 1) MacOS X Prefs Location: specialFolderPath(Home) /Library/Application Support/MyCompany/MyAppBundleID/ - - Apple requires you to use the application's bundle id for the *folder name* Hi Igor, Never submitted

Re: AW: Where to write application data

2013-06-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/7/13 7:37 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Would /Library/Application Support/MyCompany/MyAppBundleID/ also be the best place for 8GB of video data, though it aren't prefence files or where would you store this kind of data? Yes, that's where Apple wants you to store that kind of file.

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-07 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hello, Peter, Sent from my iPad On 08/06/2013, at 2:31 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@semperuna.comwrote: 1) MacOS X Prefs Location: specialFolderPath(Home) /Library/Application Support/MyCompany/MyAppBundleID/ - -

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Not sure there's a standard place on Linux but I think I've just used the users home directory with a company/application folder within that That, as Warren described, *is* the unix standard, and has been since the PDP-11.

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Devin Asay wrote: I checked Ken Ray's site (http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode /tips/file010.htm) but don't find exactly what I'm looking for there, plus I'm not sure it's 100% up to date. FWIW, I was talking about Ken about the list at his site just a couple weeks ago while

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-06 Thread Devin Asay
On Jun 6, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Devin Asay wrote: I checked Ken Ray's site (http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode /tips/file010.htm) but don't find exactly what I'm looking for there, plus I'm not sure it's 100% up to date. FWIW, I was talking about Ken about

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-06 Thread Devin Asay
On Jun 6, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Devin Asay wrote: I checked Ken Ray's site (http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode /tips/file010.htm) but don't find exactly what I'm looking for there, plus I'm not sure it's 100% up to date. FWIW, I was talking about Ken about

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-06 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: BTW, as I was experimenting I discovered that specialFolderPath(usr) on OS X yields ~/Library/Application Support. Maybe I'm the last one on this bus, but it was news to me, and very helpful. :) News to me also.

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-06 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi guys, Am 06.06.2013 um 19:36 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: BTW, as I was experimenting I discovered that specialFolderPath(usr) on OS X yields ~/Library/Application Support. Maybe I'm the last one on this

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-06 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Klaus major-k kl...@major-k.de wrote: well, sometimes it is not a bad idea to read the Release Notes with every new version ;-) And sometimes, it's a good idea for the user guide and the dictionary to be updated with every new version! Actually, I take that

Where to write application data

2013-06-05 Thread Devin Asay
Hi folks, I know this discussion pops up here from time to time, but I can't find what I remember seeing. I checked Nabble, but no luck. For desktop applications, where can our applications legally write to for the three main OS's? I'm not talking about sandboxing for Mac App Store apps, just

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/05/2013 09:40 PM, Devin Asay wrote: For Linux: No idea! In general in Linux, user specific data will go into an invisible directory with the application name, in the user's home directory. So, you can do something like put tData into URL file:~/.myapp/the_data_file remembering that

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-05 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Devin, I've always used the location you mentioned for OSX with a folder for even the company name of the application name within it.. For Windows, I use specialFolderpath(26) which I think resolves to /Users/AppData/Roaming (maybe different on different versions of Windows. Not sure there's