Mac OS X Preferences?

[Moritz Boerner]

Hi all,
I am trying to make a application playable on Mac OS X.
I used the code

if the machinetype <> 256 then
set gWhere = getOSDirectory() & "Preferences" & ""
else
set gWhere = getOSDirectory() & "\"
end if

Then I create a file with the FileIO Xtra and write to it.
This does not work on Mac OS X because this path does not exist. Funny: a
file is created in the folder of the projector but remains empty and
therefore a player error is produced.
My question: Where is the place to store an Ini file on the Mac with OSX?
Does "getOSDirectory()" of FileIO work?
How I find out that I am on Mac OS X? the platform? What does it return
then?

Sorry I am developing on Windows and have an old Mac Power PC, but do not
want to buy a new computer just for finding out a few lines of code...
.... bad enough I had to spend the money for the MX update to create the
projector...

Thanks in advance for help.

Moritz

[Andrew Morton]

> My question: Where is the place to store an Ini file on the Mac with OSX?

You need fileXtra4 from [url]http://kblab.net/xtras[/url] to get that info.

> Does "getOSDirectory()" of FileIO work?

I would be surprised if it worked with OSX because it was written a long time
ago.

Andrew

[Rob Dillon]

Hi Moritz,

You shouldn't use the machineType property to test for the platform.
That doesn't work reliably any more.

You can use getOSDirectory() to find the system folder in Mac OS X.
However, there is no preferences folder inside the system folder in OS
X. The only folder inside the system folder in OS X is Library. You
can't write to the System folder in OS X. An alternative is to create a
new folder at the root of that drive and write your file(s) there.
Another option is to write to the Preferences folder that is in the
Library folder that is at the root of the startup drive. This is where
most apps store their preference information.

If you want to find the exact OS that the user is running, ask for the
osVersion property of the environment.

put the environment.osVersion

-- "Macintosh OS 10.3.2"

for example.

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