Re: [AD] Additions for al_get_path() (was Re: Allegro 5 TODOs (from wiki))

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On December 14, 2008, Matthew Leverton wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > AL_USER_HOME_PATH is more the base of the user's local disk allocation.
> > In unix, its the base of USER_DATA_PATH, and USER_SETTINGS_PATH and
> > whatnot. So thats probably why I used PROFILE, but as you said, you can't
> > really do anything with that path in windows.
>
> I understand what it is conceptually, but I don't think it is
> important for Allegro to provide that information because there's
> nothing platform independent that you can do with it. By calling it
> HOME_PATH and setting it to the Windows PROFILE path, you basically
> must warn the user "don't put anything in the home path," which makes
> it useless. By calling it HOME_PATH and setting it to the Windows
> PERSONAL path, it's a misnomer.
>
> So I think it should be named accordingly: USER_DOCUMENT_PATH. It's
> the default place to put files that the user should be able to edit
> outside of the application. e.g, It might be where you save in-game
> screenshots. There is also a system-wide version of it, at least for
> Windows.

If we want to go this far, we might want to use the user's photo/pictures dir 
for screenshots and provide a USER_PICTURES_PATH or some such.

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> Matthew Leverton
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