Difference between AbsolutePath and NativePath

[Michael_Hußmann]

@119778:@Roger Clary

I can remember the time in the RB>RS>Xojo world when folderitem.getSaveInfo was the recommended way to store and recover the path to a file. This is now the 2nd extensive discussion of this topic with no mention of that method. There is no deprecation mentioned in the LR. Is this still the recommended way to store a path to a file or DB or not?

I would suppose it is still the recommended way to store a file or folder reference in a file or database, but for storing a reference internally in a Xojo app, why not just stick with the FolderItem itself?

[Roger_Clary]

I “would suppose” so too, Michael. Making the distinction of saving to file as opposed to internal usage, I was looking for conformation of our “supposing”

[Roger_Clary]

conformation = confirmation

[kevin_g]

@119795:@Michel Bujardet

Actually, the only perfectly cross platform solution is the FolderItem, not the AbsolutePath which is only one of its properties.

FolderItem allows you to write cross platform code but the only way to store the path data and use it on a different platform is to store the path as a string. Last time I checked you couldn’t store a FolderItem via FolderItem.GetSaveInfo() on a Mac and use the data on Windows.

[Michel_Bujardet]

@119894:@Kevin Gale

FolderItem allows you to write cross platform code but the only way to store the path data and use it on a different platform is to store the path as a string. Last time I checked you couldn’t store a FolderItem via FolderItem.GetSaveInfo() on a Mac and use the data on Windows.

Why go through GetSaveInfo which is relative ?

And, frankly, how often does one have to store a path on Mac and retrieve it on Windows, or the other way around, for different machines that do not even have the same file system structure ?

[kevin_g]

[quote=119957:@Michel Bujardet]Why go through GetSaveInfo which is relative ?

And, frankly, how often does one have to store a path on Mac and retrieve it on Windows, or the other way around, for different machines that do not even have the same file system structure ?[/quote]

I must admit it has been several years since I looked at GetSaveInfo so can only remember it didn’t work for what we needed. Parts of our system map paths between file systems on a regular basis so for us this is important. Even without having to do this there still wasn’t a reliable way to store paths that could be re-loaded at a later time so we had to use AbsolutePath as the solution.