Graham, Thanks for the reply.I was looking at the preferences or documents folder due to permission issues but I am just not sure if I use my apps Support folder if another application can write to it? Or is the support folder able to be accessed from both apps? Do you know?
Thanks Tom -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Feb 28, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: > Tom, unless I've misunderstood what you need, why not use the > specialFolderPath("support") path? These are paths that can be written to by > an application on both platforms. It's easy to see what the path actually is, > so you can tell the low level application. I'm using this approach for > somewhere to put a data stack (a stack that can be saved at runtime) on a > two-platform app and it works for me. > > HTH > > Graham > On 28 Feb 2013, at 18:32, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > >> I am working on a cross-platform (Mac/Windows) app and I had to hire out for >> a low level application to be written that will trap 'all' key events on >> both platforms. Pretty straight forward. It timestamps and writes the key or >> keys that were hit out to a file that I in turn look for changes to from >> within LC. The key trapper will have it's own installer and I need to tell >> it where to write to before it is built. >> >> My question is where is the best place to write this file to on a Mac? on a >> PC? >> >> I am not going through the Mac App store but I don't want to run into >> problems with permissions etc. once deployed. >> >> >> I am searching online now but there is a lot of gobble goop that is not >> pertinent. >> >> Any help or ideas are appreciated. >> >> Tom >> >> -- Tom McGrath III >> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com >> mcgra...@mac.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
