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diff --git a/FL/Fl_Preferences.H b/FL/Fl_Preferences.H index db0708967..af2c8fd87 100644 --- a/FL/Fl_Preferences.H +++ b/FL/Fl_Preferences.H @@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ reasons. One application can have multiple preferences files. Extensive binary data however should be stored in separate files: see getUserdataPath(). + + \note Platform-specific location of the Fl_Preferences text files. + This construct + \code new Fl_Preferences(Fl_Preferences::USER, "vendor", "application"); \endcode + where "vendor" and "application" are any user-chosen strings, will create these text files: + \li Windows XP platform: <tt>C:\\Documents and Settings\\<i>username</i>\\Application Data\\<i>vendor</i>\\<i>application</i>.prefs</tt> + \li Windows 7+ platform: <tt>C:\\Users\\<i>username</i>\\AppData\\Roaming\\<i>vendor</i>\\<i>application</i>.prefs </tt> + \li X11 platform: <tt>$HOME/.fltk/<i>vendor</i>/<i>application</i>.prefs </tt> + \li MacOS platform: <tt>$HOME/Library/Preferences/<i>vendor</i>/<i>application</i>.prefs </tt> \note Starting with FLTK 1.3, preference databases are expected to be in UTF-8 encoding. Previous databases were stored in the |