Re: Preferences files

[Mark Brownell]

On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 12:56  PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote:

If I ask the user to save a Pref file somewhere on their machine then 
what is the best way to get that file loaded next time they run the > CD?
The CD is meant for cross-platform distribution.
Thomas,

I do this:

  if the platform is "MacOS" then
    put specialFolderPath("preferences") into regStatGoPath
    put regStatGoPath & "/yourpref.txt" into itX
    if there is a file itX then
      put URL ("file:" & itX )) into temp
      -- put decompress(URL ("binfile:" & itX )) into temp
    else
      -- do something here to create one
    end if
  end if
  if the platform is "Win32" then
    put specialFolderPath("system") into regStatGoPath
    put regStatGoPath & "/yourpref.txt" into itX
    if there is a file itX then
      put URL ("file:" & itX )) into temp
      -- put decompress(URL ("binfile:" & itX )) into temp
    else
      -- do something here to create one
    end if
  end if
I would also add base64 for your cross-platform distribution.

Mark

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