Thanks that'll help alot! Is something similiar available on linux as
well?
Dunno about linux, but here's something that will work on mac os x.
The way mac os x tracks things like disk is a combination of a domain
and a folder type.
Domains are thinks like user domain, local domain etc..., folder types
are things like 'applications folder', 'library folder' and so on.
So (in C) the user's library folder (/Users/fred/Library in my case)
is identified by kUserDomain, kDomainLibraryFolderType and the top
level one (/Library) is identified by
kLocalDomain, kDomainLibraryFolderType
The following code uses rubyinline to call some C code. This doesn't
seem to work if you paste it into irb, but as a standalone ruby file
runs fine
require 'rubygems'
gem 'RubyInline'
require 'inline'
class Folder
module Domains
USER = -32763
SYSTEM_DISK = -32768
SYSTEM = -32766
LOCAL = -32765
end
module Types
def self.int_for_code code
code.unpack('N').first
end
TOP = int_for_code 'dtop' #more of these constants in Folders.h
DOCUMENTS = int_for_code 'docs'
end
inline do |builder|
builder.include "<CoreServices/CoreServices.h>"
builder.add_compile_flags "-framework CoreServices"
builder.c_singleton "
static char *find(int domain, unsigned long folder_type){
char c_path[PATH_MAX];
FSRef folder;
if(noErr == FSFindFolder(domain, folder_type, true, &folder)){
if(noErr ==FSRefMakePath(&folder, (UInt8*)c_path, PATH_MAX))
return c_path;
}
/* decide what you want to do in case of failure */
return \"err\";
}
"
end
end
puts Folder::find(Folder:
omains::USER, Folder::Types:
OCUMENTS)
#should output the user's documents folder
puts Folder::find(Folder:
omains::USER, Folder::Types::TOP) #should
output the top level of the user domain, ie the home folder
