// Purpose: interface of wxStandardPaths
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
In the description of the methods below, the example return values are given
for the Unix, Windows and Mac OS X systems, however please note that these are
just the examples and the actual values may differ. For example, under Windows:
- the system administrator may change the standard directories locations, i.e.
+ the system administrator may change the standard directories locations, e.g.
the Windows directory may be named @c "W:\Win2003" instead of
the default @c "C:\Windows".
- The strings @c appname and @c username should be replaced with the value
- returned by wxApp::GetAppName() and the name of the currently logged in user,
- respectively. The string @c prefix is only used under Unix and is @c /usr/local by
- default but may be changed using wxStandardPaths::SetInstallPrefix.
+ Notice that in the examples below the string @c appinfo may be either just
+ the application name (as returned by wxApp::GetAppName()) or a combination
+ of the vendor name (wxApp::GetVendorName()) and the application name, with
+ a path separator between them. By default, only the application name is
+ used, use UseAppInfo() to change this.
+
+ The other placeholders should be self-explanatory: the string @c username
+ should be replaced with the value the name of the currently logged in user.
+ and @c prefix is only used under Unix and is @c /usr/local by default but
+ may be changed using wxStandardPaths::SetInstallPrefix().
The directories returned by the methods of this class may or may not exist.
If they don't exist, it's up to the caller to create them, wxStandardPaths doesn't
returns GetDocumentsDir().
Example return values:
- - Unix: @c ~/appname
- - Windows: @c "C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\appname"
- - Mac: @c ~/Documents/appname
+ - Unix: @c ~/appinfo
+ - Windows: @c "C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\appinfo"
+ - Mac: @c ~/Documents/appinfo
@since 2.9.0
/**
Return the location of the applications global, i.e. not user-specific,
data files.
+
Example return values:
- - Unix: @c prefix/share/appname
+ - Unix: @c prefix/share/appinfo
- Windows: the directory where the executable file is located
- - Mac: @c appname.app/Contents/SharedSupport bundle subdirectory
+ - Mac: @c appinfo.app/Contents/SharedSupport bundle subdirectory
+
+ Under Unix (only) it is possible to override the default value returned
+ from this function by setting the value of @c WX_APPNAME_DATA_DIR
+ environment variable to the directory to use (where @c APPNAME is the
+ upper-cased value of wxApp::GetAppName()). This is useful in order to
+ be able to run applications using this function without installing them
+ as you can simply set this environment variable to the source directory
+ location to allow the application to find its files there.
@see GetLocalDataDir()
*/
Example return values:
- Unix: @c /usr/local/bin/exename
- Windows: @c "C:\Programs\AppFolder\exename.exe"
- - Mac: @c /Programs/exename
+ - Mac: @c /Applications/exename.app/Contents/MacOS/exename
*/
virtual wxString GetExecutablePath() const;
Return the location for application data files which are host-specific and
can't, or shouldn't, be shared with the other machines.
- This is the same as GetDataDir() except under Unix where it returns @c /etc/appname.
+ This is the same as GetDataDir() except under Unix where it returns @c /etc/appinfo.
*/
virtual wxString GetLocalDataDir() const;
/**
Return the directory where the loadable modules (plugins) live.
Example return values:
- - Unix: @c prefix/lib/appname
+ - Unix: @c prefix/lib/appinfo
- Windows: the directory of the executable file
- - Mac: @c appname.app/Contents/PlugIns bundle subdirectory
+ - Mac: @c appinfo.app/Contents/PlugIns bundle subdirectory
@see wxDynamicLibrary
*/
This function is the same as GetDataDir() for all platforms except Mac OS X.
Example return values:
- - Unix: @c prefix/share/appname
+ - Unix: @c prefix/share/appinfo
- Windows: the directory where the executable file is located
- - Mac: @c appname.app/Contents/Resources bundle subdirectory
+ - Mac: @c appinfo.app/Contents/Resources bundle subdirectory
@since 2.7.0
/**
Return the directory for the user-dependent application data files:
- - Unix: @c ~/.appname
- - Windows: @c "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\appname"
- - Mac: @c "~/Library/Application Support/appname"
+ - Unix: @c ~/.appinfo
+ - Windows: @c "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\appinfo"
+ - Mac: @c "~/Library/Application Support/appinfo"
*/
virtual wxString GetUserDataDir() const;
the other machines.
This is the same as GetUserDataDir() for all platforms except Windows where it returns
- @c "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\appname"
+ @c "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\appinfo"
*/
virtual wxString GetUserLocalDataDir() const;
*/
void IgnoreAppBuildSubDirs();
+ /**
+ Returns location of Windows shell special folder.
+
+ This function is, by definition, MSW-specific. It can be used to access
+ pre-defined shell directories not covered by the existing methods of
+ this class, e.g.:
+ @code
+ #ifdef __WXMSW__
+ // get the location of files waiting to be burned on a CD
+ wxString cdburnArea =
+ wxStandardPaths::MSWGetShellDir(CSIDL_CDBURN_AREA);
+ #endif // __WXMSW__
+ @endcode
+
+ @param csidl
+
+ @since 2.9.1
+ */
+ static wxString MSWGetShellDir(int csidl);
+
/**
Lets wxStandardPaths know about the real program installation prefix on a Unix
system. By default, the value returned by GetInstallPrefix() is used.
should be unique to this program, such as the application data directory, the
plugins directory on Unix, etc.
- Valid values for @a info are @c AppInfo_None and either one or combination
- of @c AppInfo_AppName and @c AppInfo_VendorName. The first one tells this
- class to not use neither application nor vendor name in the paths.
+ Valid values for @a info are:
+ - @c AppInfo_None: don't use neither application nor vendor name in
+ the paths.
+ - @c AppInfo_AppName: use the application name in the paths.
+ - @c AppInfo_VendorName: use the vendor name in the paths, usually
+ used combined with AppInfo_AppName, i.e. as @code AppInfo_AppName |
+ AppInfo_VendorName @endcode
+
+ By default, only the application name is used.
- By default, only the application name is used under Unix systems but both
- application and vendor names are used under Windows and Mac.
+ @since 2.9.0
*/
void UseAppInfo(int info);
};
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