[Implemented in 1.1.7] FR: Userdir folder primitive
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rl ·
The almost 3 year old VISTA and upcoming Win7 have bigger security constraints on folder access. The typical place for an application to store files should be the %USERPROFILE% folder (c:\users\<username> by default).
SM should offer a "Userdir folder" module (simillar to the "Plugin folder" module) that outputs the path of the user's profile location.
This might be especially helpful in cases when VST plugins are held under c:\program files, where access for a process without administrator rights is pretty limited.
TomC ·
Great idea ++
sunsynth ·
+1 from me!
aliasant ·
Would be VERY helpful.
+1
Freddymusic ·
+1
Tzarls ·
+1
mwvdlee ·
+1, even though this request is over half a year old already.
Just appdata would be sufficient for me, but since SHGetFolderPath() can just as easily read other system paths, it seems a shame not to.
trogluddite ·
Gets my vote. Been writing stuff designed to be .exe rather than vst so looking for the plugin folder is no use to me. It needs to be aware of what windows version is running and take that into account when finding the appropriate place - I'm an old stick in the mud (i.e XP user- and If it weren't for drivers/software updates etc, I'm pretty sure win95 would still do everything I require of an OS.)
MichaelBenjamin ·
yes, there needs to be a lite os without all that crap that doesnt belong to an operating system.
exonerate ·
Bump, this is definitely needed!!
For instance my preset manager HERE reads and write text files, and does not work properly in win7 or vista, I can only write to \Documents\ it seems. Of course this is a big issue because I don't know the path to \Documents\ on the end users PC!!
Of course this can be worked around by running as administrator, but this should not be necessary!
Cheers 😉
Exo
aliasant ·
Yes. Bumpty bump!
philter5 ·
+1 😀
DigitalWhiteByte ·
😕 +1
😀 +2
😈 +3
sunsynth ·
AA NN DD another BUMPER... 😮
mwvdlee ·
I've already +1'ed this, and I stand by my earlier +1.
Including my comment that just having appdata path would be enough; it's (AFAIK) the only path guaranteed to be writable by an application. From that path we could query the rest using the registry and files. In fact, if we could get just a registry read module, it would be even better than having this module.
PFozz ·
This primitive would be a great addon.
There are a lot of things I can't do because of this missing feature.
I really need this one 🙂
exonerate ·
Think we will be seeing this primitive soon 😉
MegaHurtz ·
lol.. +1 for me
but.. usedir + shl execucte = 😈 .
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