Are there any similar methods which I can use to get the root directory inside of which Lazarus/fpc create the folder named after the application. For instance, on Windows Vista, GetAppConfigDir(True) returns the

Windows Vista:
C:\Program Data\AppName\

Linux:
/home/user/.config/AppName/

What I need is a way to get these portions in a cross platform and uniform way:

C:\Program Data\

or

/etc/project1/

This way I can create my own method which returns a specific sub-folder of my choosing.

I have different apps that store their configuration files in the same directory under the main application name. Getting the special folders location on Windows is no problem but I'm not sure about other platforms.

I figure I can parse the result of GetAppConfigDir(true) figured they may be a method in place.

Thanks,

Lee Jenkins wrote

For instance, on Windows Vista, GetAppConfigDir(True) returns the

You can still use GetAppConfigDir, just override the OnGetApplicationName event and return the common application name you want to use.

Ah, I see the definitions for it in osutilsh.inc now.

Excellent. Thanks, G.

http://home.tiscali.nl/~knmg0017/software/fpc_laz/fpc_patches.tgz

This contains code for:
- GetAppConfigRoot
- GetSpecialDir (e.g. "My Documents")

Bart

2009/10/22 Bart :

- GetSpecialDir (e.g. "My Documents")

What's that going to return under Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X? For the first two, I know I don't have that directory anywhere on my drive.

> - GetSpecialDir (e.g. "My Documents") What's that going to return under Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X? For the first two, I know I don't have that directory anywhere on my drive.

Maybe KDE specific, at least I have ~/Documents on openSUSE Linux.

DoDi

2009/10/22 Graeme Geldenhuys :

You can still use GetAppConfigDir, just override the OnGetApplicationName event and return the common application name you want to use.

In the event that other developers do not know how to use this feature, here is a code example. It seems not many developers know about this feature.

Lets say the default ApplicationName returns "project1", but no matter what my actual application name is, I would like to return a specific (custom) name instead.

This means that GetAppConfigDir(False) would normally have return the following path under Linux:
/home/<user>/.config/project1

With the code below, it will always return:
/home/<user>/.config/tutoradmin

-----------------------------
implemenation

// This function overrides the default application name
function MyCustomApplicationName: string;
begin
  Result := 'tutoradmin';
end;
constructor TMainForm.Create(AOwner: TComponent );
begin
  inherited Create(AOwner);
  OnGetApplicationName := @MyCustomApplicationName;
  lCfg := GetAppConfigDir(False) + PathDelim + 'settings.ini';
end;
-----------------------------

They are also documented :-)

Michael.

2009/10/23 Michael Van Canneyt :

They are also documented :-)

And it took me 0.014 seconds to find with fpGUI DocView. :-) Hopefully I'll be able to release a beta in the next week or so, for public testing.

PS:
The fpdoc IPF output is looking beter and beter every day. Almost ready to supply a patch for fpdoc.

Another patch has been entered btw. Delphi XML output.

2009/10/23 Marco van de Voort :

Another patch has been entered btw. Delphi XML output.

What is that, Delphi XML? A new custom help format? If so, what viewer does that use?

No, it is more something like Codegear/Borland's own variant of fpdoc's own meta XML formats, that can then be pushed through Codegear's own helpfile generator.

It might be useful for htmlhelp2 (and maybe htmlhelp3 which comes out with the next Visual Studio I'm told, and I assume Delphi will support it with the version after)

I don't know much details for the rest btw, not even which SKU has this.

I thought that CodeGear uses the HH2 to create helpfiles. Does CG now provide an help compiler for component/plugin writers?

DoDi

Afaik yes. But there not all work is done by HH2. These XMLs must be processed first before HH2 can compress the result. Hence "codegear's helpfile generator".

Does CG now provide an help compiler for component/plugin writers?

I don't know much about Delphi helpfile generation. Not even if it is in all SKUs