On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 07:09 +0000, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2009 02:20:19 Bob Paddock wrote: > > > This is "better", but its still not quite the right place to put things > > > on Win32 if you were aiming for a more native place. > > > > APPDATA may always be set, I'm not sure. > > > > Hmm, yes, it sounds like $APPDATA/gEDA/ is where we should keep things on > Windows -- possibly the configuration files as well. Gah. Does anyone know > where Microsoft keep the spec for this?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995853.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762494.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762204(VS.85).aspx Do see the glib code for g_get_home_folder() (actually, look in glib/gutils.c, and find load_user_special_dirs(). Note it checks some env-vars first. Also note the DLL loading, and conversion between UTF-16 and UTF-8 when calling the APIs to retrieve this information. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
