X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/4f83b9fc549a66de1e76362c9b1ff78236ef7ec7..4311588bfe40e15dc83154b9653ebc432b42baeb:/interface/wx/stdpaths.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/stdpaths.h b/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
index 22a36bdb30..88c37c870b 100644
--- a/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
+++ b/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
     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, the vendor name is used under
-    Windows and OS X but not under other Unix systems, see UseAppInfo().
+    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.
@@ -103,11 +103,20 @@ public:
     /**
         Return the location of the applications global, i.e. not user-specific,
         data files.
+
         Example return values:
         - Unix: @c prefix/share/appinfo
         - Windows: the directory where the executable file is located
         - 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()
     */
     virtual wxString GetDataDir() const;
@@ -327,8 +336,7 @@ public:
             used combined with AppInfo_AppName, i.e. as @code AppInfo_AppName |
             AppInfo_VendorName @endcode
 
-        By default, only the application name is used under Unix systems but both
-        application and vendor names are used under Windows and Mac.
+        By default, only the application name is used.
 
         @since 2.9.0
     */