Re: Creating localized directories
Re: Creating localized directories
- Subject: Re: Creating localized directories
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:39:10 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research
On 2007-03-19 15:09, Michael Watson said:
>Well, the NSApplicationSupportDirectory constant is just an integer,
>and won't tell me what the name of the directory is supposed to be,
>to create it if necessary.
True. I would argue the Foundation APIs are weak in this area, and have
been for a while, after all NSApplicationSupportDirectory was only just added.
>The app launches and looks for its support directory. If it's not
>found, we want to create it, but before we do that, we want to make
>sure the Application Support directory exists. If not, we need to
>create it. If it's not there, I don't know what it's supposed to be
>named, so I can't create it.
>
>Looks like the only function that will handle this is FSFindFolder,
>as it knows what the directory is supposed to be named before
>creating it.
Yup!
>Is that mechanism exposed anywhere else?
You mean in Foundation somewhere? I'd don't think so. Why not just use
FSFindFolder? Sure, it's a C API, but so is
NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomain().
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Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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