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AppGameKit Classic Chat / OpenToWrite location

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Codepunk
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Posted: 15th Aug 2011 22:23
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When you use the command OpenToWrite with a filename, where is that filename on the local filesystem? I ran the "WritingToFile" sample in the Windows player but the file that gets created is not in the project folder. Does it go in the TEMP folder?
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Mike Johnson
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Posted: 16th Aug 2011 00:03
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Files get created in a temporary location. Call GetWritePath to find out where this is.
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Paul Johnston
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Posted: 16th Aug 2011 01:07
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On Windows it is in "My Documents/AGK/UniqueAppName"
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LeeBamber
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Posted: 16th Aug 2011 06:31
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This ensures you app can work on lots of different devices that have very different ideas about where writeable files should go

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bjadams
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Posted: 18th Aug 2011 11:53
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On PCs (windows - mac) it might be a better idea to let the programmer specify his own path instead of it being hardcoded.
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LeeBamber
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Posted: 19th Aug 2011 03:26
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I can see your point there, especially for those coders who use AppGameKit but are primarily looking to develop a Windows only app. How about a command like:

SetRawWriteDir ( "yourpath" ) - this would be ignored on platforms that cannot change their write path, but on Mac and Windows would write into the Documents folder (i.e. C:\Users\You\My Documents\yourpath)

We want to make sure AppGameKit is always sand-boxed, so there are no commands and no way in which the language could overwrite or destroy system files or gleam private information from the users device. The trick is that every command needs to go through the question 'what would it do on THIS device', and the number of devices grow weekly

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SFSW
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That sounds like the ideal solution.

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bjadams
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I think that eventually there will come the need for platform specific commands as PC apps will have different needs & requirements than mobile platforms
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