You could create a directory based upon the user - determine the name of
the currently logged on user in both 9x and NT - use that to create a
Subdir off of Abi's own program dir and store that users prefs in that
directory? This would be possible under most OS's I think - but then again
I'm not sure <g>
How does that sound?
Jim
At 11:31 AM 3/22/99 -0600, you wrote:
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>i'm not sure what to do....
>
>on NT, there's a \WINNT\Profiles\jeff\Application Data\
>directory. but i've yet to find system call to give me
>that pathname -- surely i don't have to guess/construct
>this one myself....
>
>on 95/98 there's the windows-system and the windows
>directory.
>
>on a network-install, some of those directories are
>on the server and some are local.
>
>if AbiWord is installed on the network server, you
>won't have write access to the directory.
>
>there should be one file per user -- not that any of these
>OS'es are multi-user systems, but sometimes they try to be....
>
>there's the registry -- just say no!
>
>any thoughts or suggestions anyone ??
>jeff
[snip]
>>Well if nothing else could we change the Win95/98/NT
>>preferences to be stored in the same directory as the
>>executable. I try and keep things as clean and tidy
>>as I can, though it is a loosing battle so I don't
>>know why I bother.
>>
>>How about a single preference file with a new entry
>>(within the file) for each user on a Win machine.
>>
>>Thomas
>>
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>>Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
>>thomasf@qnx.com Neutrino Development Group
>>(613)-591-0931 http://www.qnx.com/~thomasf
>>
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