Great find, Dave! I'll add that to the tips list for future reference! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Cragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: specialFolderPath function (Mac OS X) > Hi > > I just made a small discovery concerning the specialFolderPath > function on Mac OS X. (Apologies if this is common knowledge.) > > There was some discussion in the past on this list about extending > the specialFolderPath function on Windows with numerical codes. (Ken > Ray very kindly documented these codes on his site. > <http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/tips/win003.htm>). > > I was wondering whether there was anything similar for Mac OS X (I > was wanting to locate a user's "Application Support" folder). After > looking around some sample AppleScripts, I discovered there are > indeed various codes ( a huge number it seems). And these codes > (mostly 4-character strings) seem to work with the specialFolderPath > function. For example: > > get specialFolderPath("cusr") returns (on my system) > "/Volumes/taro_1/Users/dave" > > get specialFolderPath("asup") returns "/Library/Application Support" > > After further poking around, I found these codes can be found > (amongst other stuff) in the "folders.h" file which resides deep in > the Library folder (try a find in the Finder to locate it). > > It looks like the file contains codes for both OS X and earlier OS > versions, but I've not been able to test them on Mac OS 8/9 yet. > > Bear in mind that these extensions to specialFolderPath aren't > documented, and therefore we should assume they aren't officially > supported. (Probably with good reason as not all codes will work > across all OS versions). But I thought it might be of use to someone. > > Cheers > Dave > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
