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Feature request: get documents directory
jordonp
Joined: 27 Aug 2014
Posts: 1
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 8:26 pm
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I think it would be useful to add this to the file system code.
We have SDL_GetBasePath and SDL_GetPrefPath, it would be great to also have SDL_GetDocsPath.
This would return your apps documents folder on iOS, My Documents on windows, ~/Documents on OSX and linux(or maybe just ~/ on linux), not sure about android, maybe sdcard?
This isn't hard to code myself but would be useful for cross-platform apps, especially on iOS since the documents directory is the only folder the user can access.
I know SDL_GetPrefPath gives you something you can save in, but documents would be better for files your game/app can open/edit such as with a level/map editor.