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Quote from: Dabz on September 08, 2024, 22:26:42Ideally, you should be writing these things to somewhere in the appdata folder... Only problem is, they've mucked about with how to actually get these things so many times, I now just use this (On Windows):-

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char* GetEnvAppDataPath()
{
return(getenv("APPDATA"));
}
Which you plonk in a C file, then import said C file in your Blitzmax source, e.g.

Import "c_code.c"

Then to use it in Blitzmax:-

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Extern
Function GetEnvAppDataPath:Byte Ptr()
End Extern

Local appDataPath:String = String.FromCString(GetEnvAppDataPath())
Print "*"+appDataPath+"*"
End
Bare in mind, this isnt the "safest" way, not in a security sense, but valid path sense, I've had no bother with it at all though, but, consider checks on the returned path none the less, I also have another one which returns the users temp folder, just replace the "APPDATA" string with "TEMP", and in goes your eye out. <--- And before anyone asks, why don't I just pass a string with the name of the special folder and have something like SystemProperty("BLAH") like other Blitz languages... All I can say is, meh!

Dabz

I would love to see more examples of how to integrate with C

Baggey

Hi,

you can get environment variable directly from Blitzmax

Print getenv_("TEMP")
Print getenv_("USERNAME")
Print getenv_("APPDATA")

-Henri

Quote from: Henri on September 09, 2024, 11:53:16Hi,

you can get environment variable directly from Blitzmax

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Print getenv_("TEMP")
Print getenv_("USERNAME")
Print getenv_("APPDATA")

-Henri

well, I was todays years old when I found that out... I didnt know it existed because I'm sure once I needed it, and for love nor money could I find it... But then, I never give the _ character a thought... Oh well, live and learn!

@Ron
Handy to know geezer! Nice one, but I'll be honest, I would never have thought to look in volumes for Filesystem stuff (I know they are related some what, but, for paths, I would of just took a peek in Filesystem.bmx where you have CurrentDir() etc etc

Dabz

Yeah, maybe we should suggest to move that functionality into "filesystem.mod" - albeit I am not sure how much that collides with "brl.io" then (which is a virtual filesystem layer on top of filesystem.mod stuff). What I mean is: brl.io covers to virtualize the brl.filesystem stuff - but am not sure about the brl.volumes functionality.


bye
Ron