Re: Get path to user preference folder
Re: Get path to user preference folder
- Subject: Re: Get path to user preference folder
- From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:52:07 -0800
On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 07:21 AM, Daniel Aarno wrote:
How can I retrieve the path to the a users preference folder in the
correct manner, i.e how can I get ~/Library/Preferences without
hard-coding it in my sources?
Also I must apologize for the multiple posts that are likely to appear
here. My e-mail address got screwed up.
What are you attempting to do this?
If to access your apps own preferences then that is done automatically
for you if you use the user defaults system (NSUserDefaults). You can
also use this, in theory, to access other applications defaults. (or
drop down to CFPreferences)
FYI, you can use the command line tool "defaults" as well to probe and
change application defaults stored by apps if they use NSUserDefaults
or CFPreferences.
You should not assume that application defaults (preferences) will
always be stored at "~/Library/Preferences" or any place in flat files.
I would look over
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/TasksAndConcepts/
ProgrammingTopics/UserDefaults/index.html if you haven't already.
-Shawn
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