commit 3984e19e

sago007 · 2015-09-20 11:12
3984e19e6986002bd023cf18e02297402c40c26d patch · browse files
parent a337b4fde37e649ffb0a88045cc40b495f5c29bc

For good measure the save game folder now contains a back-slash instead of a forward slash in case it should be used in human readable output

Changed files

M	.gitignore before
M	README.md before
M	sago/platform_folders.cpp before

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index b8bd026..02f4869 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore

@@ -26,3 +26,10 @@

*.exe

*.out

*.app

+# Sago's files

+private

+.deps

+doxygen

+*~

+platform_folders

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index cda912e..8aed8ad 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@

# PlatformFolders

-A abstraction self contained C++ library so that you do not need to have Windows and Linux specific code to look for special directories

+A self contained C++ abstraction library so that you do not need to have Windows and Linux specific code to look for special directories

# Rationale

There are a lot of platform abstraction libraries available. You can get graphics abstraction libraries, GUI abstraction libraries and file abstraction libraries.

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ In Linux a lot of these folders are not official defined. However this library u

Currently not supported. The Mac OS X C++ documentation is very slim and I could not get FSFindFolder to work (I need to link against something). As a result you will simply get the XDG defined folders if you try to use compile it on Mac.

If someone could tell me what I need to link to get "_FSFindFolder" I'll add support for Mac as well.

+# Usage

+Copy "sago/platform_files.cpp" and "sago/platform_fildes.h" to your program and make sure that the cpp file is compiled and linked.

# Hello World

This sample program gets all folders from the system:

diff --git a/sago/platform_folders.cpp b/sago/platform_folders.cpp index b6c62ea..9699868 100644 --- a/sago/platform_folders.cpp +++ b/sago/platform_folders.cpp

@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ std::string PlatformFolders::getSaveGamesFolder1() const {

#if defined(_WIN32)

//A dedicated Save Games folder was not introduced until Vista. For XP and older save games are most often saved in a normal folder named "My Games".

//Data that should not be user accessible should be placed under GetDataHome() instead

- return GetWindowsFolder(CSIDL_PERSONAL, "Failed to find My Documents folder")+"/My Games";

+ return GetWindowsFolder(CSIDL_PERSONAL, "Failed to find My Documents folder")+"\\My Games";

#else

return getDataHome();

#endif