Hi Cole,
Thanks for the advice, Michael. I'll probably do something similar in
the end. At this point, I'm driven mostly by curiosity. And my lazy side
would prefer to only use setpref. ;) I'll whip up a little test
projector and see how far I push setpref.
Here comes a similar solution I've been using, wich gave me a reliable
pref file from Os8 to X, frm win95 to WinXP, and ok for user with
restricted profiles
(using fileXtra4)
on GetPrefsFilePath () ----------------------------------------------------
-- OUTPUT #string
-------
lstrPaths = list()
if the platform contains "indows" then
lstrPaths.add("CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA")
lstrPaths.add("CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA")
lstrPaths.add("CSIDL_APPDATA")
else
lstrPaths.add("kPreferencesFolderType")
lstrPaths.add("kSystemPreferencesFolderType")
end if
xFX = xtra("fileXtra4").new()
sFolder = ""
repeat while (sFolder = "")
if not count(lstrPaths) then exit repeat
sTarget = lstrPaths[1]
lstrPaths.deleteAt(1)
sFolder = xFX.fx_FolderGetSpecialPath(sTarget)
end repeat
if (sFolder = "") then return ""
sDelim = the last char of the moviePath
sLogFile = sFolder & "TheProject" &sDelim& "pref.dat"
return sLogFile
end -- GetPrefsFilePath handler
Because the user pref folder is better than the common one, but this user
folder isn't available on all the flavor of each OS. Uing this routine to
get the pref file, I never had any bug report.
Cheers,
s�b
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