[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yeah, we need to figure out how to support env vars in the preferences  
system so that we can distribute a set of default settings that will  
work on any computer.

.hc

On Dec 23, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Thomas Grill wrote:

> Hi all,
> i'm sorry i haven't really followed the thread entirely, but it should  
> be clear that noone should rely on "c:\program files" or  "meine  
> dokumente". There are env variables for that, called ProgramFiles,  
> USERPROFILE and others, so there's hardly any difference to ~.
>
> greetings,
> Thomas
>
> Mathieu Bouchard schrieb:
>
>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The problem is, that there is no file called "Dokumente" on the  
>>> machine,
>>> the actual file (or folder) is called "Documents". However the  
>>> Finder -
>>> which I thought was a *File* manager, but it seems, it isn't one -
>>> showed a folder called "Dokumente", which just doesn't exist!
>>>
>>
>> It just depends on what your expectations from the file manager are.  
>> I'm happy with such a scheme as long as it's easy for me to find what  
>> the untranslated name is.
>>
>>
>>> That's one thing, that's better on MS-Windows, where "My Documents"  
>>> on a
>>> english machine actually is a folder "Meine Dateien" on a german  
>>> windows
>>> box.  Of course the unixish '~' is even better and solves all  
>>> language
>>> problems. ;)
>>>
>>
>> The latter is not a joke. Expecting the directory "C:\\Program Files"  
>> to
>> exist on Windows is a common mistake. A database of untranslated  
>> names to
>> translated names is required. On OSX, programs don't have to make the
>> translations themselves, because the translations are made only in the
>> user interface.
>>
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