Mac OSX folders needed by application

Nevering

What is the best way to reference and use folders on a Mac in Qt ? I'm finding that the ApplicationDirPath is coming back with some extra folders in the path name which is messing up finding associated folders relative to Windows and Linux .

thanks

JosephMills

I have dealt with this in the past . Because of osx bundle madness. I wrote a helper function that just uses QString and cuts off the bundle madness. Alternatively if you are asking about system wide paths take a look at QStanderedPaths .

Nevering

I have an application and some associated files. First I was just putting them an folder , app and associated folders. On windows it is easy to reference these folders based on the location of the application . On Mac I get an extra mess for the application path. Could you share your helper function ideas ? This seems like something that should be standard in Qt, if it's going to be truly Cross Platform.

SGaist

Hi,

What folders do you have in mind ?
Where are you putting them ?
What is your use of them ?

Nevering

Right now I'm just building, and the application couldn't fine the folders

Have a
Bin folder with application
Menu folder that builds a dynamic menu
Des folder that has some information
Image that has images to display

I added CONFIG -= app_bundle to .pro file and now running the app finds the folders..

I guess I could have a predefined folder for Mac and Windows somewhere

SGaist

Where are you storing them on Windows and Linux ?

Nevering

On Windows and Linux it's the same folder as application ..

SGaist

Image and Des folder looks like static content, right ?
What about Menu ? Is it something your user can modify ?

Nevering

Right image and des is static content, but would likely be changed with minor updates.

One menu is built from menu files. This will probably go into a dialog for selection rather than menu.
One of the menus the user can customize.

SGaist

Then regardless of the OS, you should put that user customizable subfolder in the QStandardPaths::AppConfigLocation.

The other folders content will be updated when you provide a new version of the application.

In any case, don't put anything user editable in the same folder as the binary. On Windows, the folder is read-only, and it should be the same on Linux.

Nevering

Thanks, I'll try that