renamed wxFileLocator to wxStandardPaths
[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / stdpaths.h
1 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: wx/stdpaths.h
3 // Purpose: declaration of wxStandardPaths class
4 // Author: Vadim Zeitlin
5 // Modified by:
6 // Created: 2004-10-17
7 // RCS-ID: $Id$
8 // Copyright: (c) 2004 Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwindows.org>
9 // Licence: wxWindows licence
10 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11
12 #ifndef _WX_FILELOC_H_
13 #define _WX_FILELOC_H_
14
15 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
16 // wxStandardPaths returns the standard locations in the file system
17 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
18
19 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxStandardPaths
20 {
21 public:
22 // return the directory with system config files:
23 // /etc under Unix, c:\Windows under Windows, /Library/Preferences for Mac
24 static wxString GetConfigDir();
25
26 // return the directory for the user config files:
27 // $HOME under Unix, c:\Documents and Settings\username under Windows,
28 // ~/Library/Preferences under Mac
29 //
30 // only use this if you have a single file to put there, otherwise
31 // GetUserDataDir() is more appropriate
32 static wxString GetUserConfigDir();
33
34 // return the location of the applications global, i.e. not user-specific,
35 // data files
36 //
37 // /usr/share/appname under Unix, c:\Program Files\appname under Windows,
38 // Contents app bundle directory under Mac
39 static wxString GetDataDir();
40
41 // return the location for application data files which are host-specific
42 //
43 // same as GetDataDir() except under Unix where it is /etc/appname
44 static wxString GetLocalDataDir();
45
46 // return the directory for the user-dependent application data files
47 //
48 // $HOME/.appname under Unix,
49 // c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\appname under Windows
50 // and ~/Library/appname under Mac
51 static wxString GetUserDataDir();
52
53 // return the directory for user data files which shouldn't be shared with
54 // the other machines
55 //
56 // same as GetUserDataDir() for all platforms except Windows where it is
57 // the "Local Settings\Application Data\appname" directory
58 static wxString GetUserLocalDataDir();
59
60 // return the directory where the loadable modules (plugins) live
61 //
62 // /usr/lib/appname under Unix, program directory under Windows and
63 // Contents/Plugins app bundle subdirectory under Mac
64 static wxString GetPluginsDir();
65 };
66
67 #endif // _WX_FILELOC_H_
68