Re: NSApplicationSupportFolder

FROM : Rosyna
DATE : Tue Dec 28 15:38:03 2004

A lot of Cocoa devs will go through extraordinary lengths just to
avoid Carbon. And it doesn't matter to them that their "solution"
just calls the Carbon APIs underneath it ;-).

Ack, at 12/28/04, M. Uli Kusterer said:

>At 12:50 Uhr +0100 28.12.2004, Stephan Burlot wrote:

>>The result is correct, it just gives you what you ask for.
>>
>>Use this script to get all application support paths:
>>
>>"POSIX path of (path to application support from system domain) &
>>\",\" & POSIX path of (path to application support from user
>>domain) & \",\" & POSIX path of (path to application support from
>>local domain) & \",\" & POSIX path of (path to application support
>>from network domain) & \",\" & POSIX path of (path to application
>>support from Classic domain)"

>
>Urk. That's a comma-delimited text string containing all the paths
>... you definitely don't want that. If any of the path items
>contained a comma in its name, your app would fail (they don't now,
>but the whole point of this is to be prepared for future changes).
>
>Why don't you just use FSFindFolder() and be done with it. No use
>wasting the user's CPU cycles by firing up AppleScript and employing
>scripting hacks if there's a reliable programming API built-in.


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Rosyna Keller
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