cross platform documents directory

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

Start with the existing ofxiPhoneGetDocumentsDirectory entry point and trace its platform-specific implementations. Compare the requested Application Support and My Documents locations across iOS, macOS, and Windows, then verify that the resulting cross-platform API returns the expected directories on each target.

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Description

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Currently OF supports ofxiPhoneGetDocumentsDirectory which returns the correct documents directory on iOS. However, there is no way to get to Application Support or My Documents without doing platform specific code. This is necessary for deploying either on steam or mac app store.

The code for getting to application support on osx is the same as the iOS code. On windows, it appears that this code works: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2414828/get-path-to-my-documents (although I haven't tried it).

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