Re: Find the 'Application Support' folder

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Tue Oct 12 19:36:48 2004

On Oct 12, 2004, at 10:04 AM, stephane sudre wrote:

>
> On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:40 PM, John Stiles wrote:
>

>>
>> On Oct 12, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:

>>>
>>> FSFindFolder works, but I have always wondered why Apple hasn't
>>> built in a Cocoa API for accessing these folders. Having to go
>>> through Carbon to do this is kind of annoying.
>>>
>>> Yes, there are third-party categories that give this functionality,
>>> but it really should be part of the default API.

>>
>> I've never understood this attitude. I must be missing something,
>> because to me it feels elitist.
>>
>> What's the difference between calling FSFindFolder and, say,
>> [NSFolder folder:kApplicationSupportFolder]? [...]

>
> You meant NSApplicationSupportFolder of course? ;-)


Great, we get to have two sets of functionally identical enums. That's
just peachy.
:)