User directory in MacOS BMax

Hi there;

I'm currently working on a project in which people should be able to save their stuff in the user's documents dir. However how do you do that in BMax on MacOS.

I know the standard unix prefix for the userdir is ~, but BMax doesn't recognize it as so and appears to be looking for a dir named "~" that (of course) doesn't exist.

Is there another way to do this?

In a terminal app type: "cd ~"

works same like in other unix OS's.

I don't know why this won't work in BlitzMax ... but it should .... :-/

[Edit]

try this: $userDir

does that work ?

The terminal command "cd ~" works, but it's more that I'd like to do it this way.


File = WriteStream("~/myappdocs/document")

Well, that doesn't work, as BlitzMax doesn't see "~" as the user directory.


I've now done it on the "ugly" method...

Like this
(pseudo code. Not real code)
MakeBat "GetUserDir.bat","cd ~\npwd > /AppDir/UserDir.txt"
RunBat "GetUserDir"
UserDir = ReadString("/AppDir/UserDir.txt"

As I said peudo code, but you get the picture.
It is the "ugly" method, so if there's an official method, I'd like to know.


($userDir only got me errors)

Ok - Sorry i don't know too :-)

Checkout Brucey's "volumes" mod:



http://www.brucey.net/programming/blitz/index.php#bahvolumes

Thanks a lot, Winni...
That covers my need ;)

i can get my home folder with: getenv_("HOME")

No need for a module then :-)

[Edit]

this works for me:
file=OpenFile(getenv_("HOME") + "/test.txt")

Your Example should be:
File = WriteStream(getenv_("HOME") + "/myappdocs/document")

I'll try that out... ;)

HOME is an environment variable...

Bruceys-Mac-Mini:en brucey$ echo $HOME
/Users/brucey
Bruceys-Mac-Mini:en brucey$ export HOME=Woohoo
Bruceys-Mac-Mini:en brucey$ echo $HOME
Woohoo

Using APIs guarantees that things are where they are meant to be. Otherwise, why would we have APIs?

Ah okay - that makes sense.

Thanks Brucey! :-)