Re: [AD] Magic main in Windows

[Stepan Roh <stepan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Evert Glebbeek wrote:

> On Monday 02 August 2004 15:25, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> >    I fully agree. I'd say drop it: applications know how they are called
> > anyway, don't they?
>
> They know how, but they don't know where they are in the filesystem.
> The main use of get_executable_name is to find the path where the
> executable is in order to locate the game data files.
> This makes sense in Windows, but not much in *nix anyway, at least for
> well-behaved applications. So it's use is limited.
> Having this functionality eases porting Windows programs though.

What about adding these two functions:

get_data_path()
- returns path where datafiles are located (path with executable on Win, 
/usr/share/XY on *nix)

get_state_path()
- returns path where game state files (= saves, modifiable config files, 
etc.) should be stored (again path with executable on Win, ~/.XY on *nix)

Of course that brings the problem what XY is/should be :-)

Have a nice day.

Stepan Roh