Will you ever give them the option to write certain files to the desktop or is that becoming a bad idea too?
JB > On Apr 14, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote: > > On 4/14/2016 1:33 PM, Klaus major-k wrote: >> Hi firends, >> >> on Wndows XP and 7, I usually to store user preferences in >> -> specialFolderPath(35) >> ### For all users! >> resp. >> -> specialfolderpath(26) >> ## for the current user only! >> >> Is this still valid for Windows 8, 9 and 10? >> Thanks a lot in advance! >> > > We have a lot of Windows users of our cross-platform product. Many in > setting where their computers are on university of company networks, > some with remote home directory, and many with various parts of Windows > "locked" down for security. Increasing, I am realizing where Windows or > OSX, desktop OSes are going the way of Mobile OSes with Sandboxing,and > they want you to place everything in the User's Library, typically the > Documents which is becoming the only place you are still guaranteed to > have access to. Baring having to reduce scope to make deadlines, our > next release will test write access to a list of windows file locations > for an app's files and the last on the list will be Documents. We'll > just create a subfolder with our app name and place prefs and licensing > files and so in there. Eventually I think, we'll just use the Documents > folder. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
