Re: FindFolder() and Cocoa

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Mon Jan 27 20:31:54 2003

On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 10:37  AM, chris corbell wrote:

> Is there a fully-featured Cocoa equivalent for
> FindFolder()?


No, there is no Cocoa-specific API that supports all of the features of
FindFolder().  You can certainly use FindFolder(), though.

> The specific feature I'm working on involves writing
> some xml files to an Application Support folder.
>
> I've looked at NSWorkspace and NSPathUtilities and they
> don't seem to include explicit support for all of the
> possible folder types, e.g. Application Support, Documents,
> etc.  I don't want to simply append folder names to a known
> path; I'm assuming a localized system would have different
> folder names for some of these.


No, actually it wouldn't.  This is a multi-localized system, so what is
localized is the presentation of names to the user--which may vary with
each user's localization preferences--rather than the underlying names
in the filesystem--which do not.

It is, of course, a good idea in general to avoid hard-coding paths,
but it is deemed acceptable to use NSPathUtilities to locate the user's
Library directory, for example, and append a subdirectory name to that.
  Or you may use FindFolder(), as you seem to be doing.

Douglas Davidson
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