My problem with making directory path

[Exotic]

Hi everyone,

I am proud owner of the MMF2dev. I am on my way of creating some application and everything was going well until I need to face the problem of making my application able to make saves and load a saved file containing my application settings.

What i want to do is to be able to create, overwrite, and load data from my let's call it settings.ini file from the
directory on the PC wich can work under all windows systems.

I know from other posts that winXP,2000 and Vista,Seven
got some differences, and the last two got program files folder protected.
My limited programing knowlage does not let me find the solution of this problem because i only know one expression apppath$+"......" for that and don't know what exactly this (apppath$) is called an alias? It works well to create/save/load a file in my aplication or folder in it but only there and it will not work if my application will be instaled in program files folder on vista/7 wich is protected as far as i read from other posts (I am on widows XP). In short words.

My application will be installed by using Install Creator at the directory where user want it to be, but the save files i wish to be somewhere where it can be accesable by my application without problems of saving/loading stored data but I don't know what expressions I need to use, or is there one universal for this

I spend a lot of time searching forum and the internet
but didn't find what i was looking for and will be thankful to anyone for any tips or info about what i need to do or search for.

[LB]

AppPath$ is short for Application Path.
You can put the "File" object into your frame and replace AppPath$+"settings.ini" instead with AppDataDirectory$( "File" )+"\My Program Settings.ini" (because there may be a settings file already for anoither program).
If you know how to use the file object, you could create a folder for Your Program or Your Company\Your Program if you wish.
The Application Data directory is the best place to store data for your application.

[nivram]

Make your own directory off the root directory for the application and save files. This would be better than having users of different OS's ripping their hair out and ripping your arm out of its socket.

Matv

[LB]

[size:8pt][quote=nivram]Make your own directory off the root directory[/quote]No matter ho many subfolders you make in the protected Program Files Folder, you cannot escape its fury, unless this is something I misunderstood?[/size]

[nivram]

LB...emm. I didn't say anything about the stupid Program's Files Folder. I stated the root directory file offshoot. Like Paul Boland and I do.

Marv

[LB]

Oh, I thought you meant root directory as in the directory where the program is installed. Sorry for the misunderstanding >_<

[Exotic]

Thank you for your quick reply, I will try that

[nivram]

Ok LB, no worries.

Marv

[BrashMonkey]

Hi nivram,

I tried having my customers install to the c:\myapp\
They ran the program, which sucessfully created a serial number file in C:\myapp\Prefs.

But then the next time they re-ran my app, It still asked for the serial, like it couldn't read or read it.

I'm using Apppath$ for both the creation and the read, and it works for all but two people who run it...any idea why its failing for these two people?

thanks

[nivram]

Sorry, no idea. It is defying laws of MS. The program saving like that should be like a old DOS computer.Maybe Paul Boland has an ides, as he is the save guru.

Marv