[Mono-osx] How to write files to (and read from) special folders

[Richard de Zwart]

I found a discussion on macworld.com 
(http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=100909) that says that 
you never know the context before hand. It depends on the place your app 
was started. You should use "~/Library/Application 
Support/yourapplication". Does the MonoMac community agree?

Richard

P.S. For reading resources I can use NSBundle.MainBundle.ResourcePath, 
and I can write there too. So what about the Application Support dir?


On 12/28/10 8:31 PM, Richard de Zwart wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> When I write a file without a path it ends up in the root of my machine.
> Code like this :
>
> File.WriteAllText("foo.txt", "This is some text");
>
> creates a file "/foo.txt".
>
> I would like to write into the app folder of my application, maybe by
> using some Environment.SpecialFolder enum like I use in a MonoTouch
> application. But the available enumerations give me machine-wide paths
> like "/Users/Shared".
>
> When I want the open a file that I marked as "Content" in my solution in
> MonoDevelop I need to specify the entire path to my bin/Debug directory.
> Which of course will not work when I deploy my app.
>
> Apparently the context of my running application is the root. Can I
> change that?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
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