This may only be relevant on OS X, but is there an easier way to get at the username of the person running the application ?
I want to persist a user preference file in /Users/*username*/Library/Application Support/*appname*/ but would need to extract the current username if I'm to do this and support multiple users.
Here's a workaround I've done but it's not ideal <grin>
Local appUser:String = getOSXUser()
Print appUser
End
' ------------------------------------------------
' Get OS X application user (in a roundabout way)
' ------------------------------------------------
Function getOSXUser:String()
Local username:String = Null
Local usersDir:String[] = LoadDir("/Users")
' iterate through each user dir
For Local dirName:String = EachIn usersDir
If Left(dirName,1) <> "." And dirName <> "Shared"
' *should* be a valid user dir
' try & change dir to a restricted dir
dirIsReadable = ChangeDir("/Users/"+dirName+"/Library")
If dirIsReadable
username = dirName
Exit
End If
End If
Next
Return username
End Function
Any ideas ?
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