Re: portable app
Re: portable app
- Subject: Re: portable app
- From: Ariel Feinerman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:17:05 +0300
He looks for technique to >store the app and all the data/images on a
thumb drive,
not to the /Library.
2010/10/1 Laurent Daudelin <email@hidden>:
> [NSBundle mainBundle] will return the path of the application bundle, not ~/Library/Application Support/[App Name]. You need to use "NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains" with the appropriate masks to search in the user's Library.
>
> -Laurent.
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> Laurent Daudelin
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> On Sep 30, 2010, at 16:00, Ariel Feinerman wrote:
>
>> Are you sure in the using of 'library/application support'? There is
>> of the matter is that one is designed for the app data not for the
>> user data.
>> Maybe you should save such files in a directory relative to the bundle
>> or in the bundle itself (not good idea). In this case you can launch
>> your app from your drive.
>>
>> If your app is in /Users/user/yourapp, your files in
>> /Users/user/yourapp/Application Support, it looks:
>>
>> NSString *appSupport = [[[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]
>> stringByDeletingLastPathComponent] stringByAppendingPathComponent:
>> @"Appication Support"];
>>
>>
>>
>> 2010/9/29 Amy Heavey <email@hidden>
>>>
>>> I'm writing an app for personal use, using core data.
>>>
>>> At the moment it's set up to save the data file in the library/application support/myapp folder on the machine. I also want to store a growing number of images to use with the app, so they are set to store in this folder as well.
>>>
>>> However, I'd like to be able to use this app on my laptop as well as the desktop. I don't really fancy managaing some kind of sync, and thought the best solution would be to store the app and all the data/images on a thumb drive. There's only me using the app, and having to walk and get the drive from the office isn't a huge headache, and I can easily take it with me if I want to work elsewhere (not on my home network).
>>>
>>> How would I set the data store to a mobile drive? can anyone point me at a tutorial? Is it as simple as naming the thumbdrive and referring to it by name in the code? The Code I've currently got is the auto/default type set up, following the Hillegass book as well,
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Amy
>
>
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best regards
Ariel
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