Introduces `BKE_appdir_folder_caches` to get the folder that
can be used to store caches. On different OS's different folders
are used.
- Linux: `~/.cache/blender/`.
- MacOS: `Library/Caches/Blender/`.
- Windows: `(%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local)\Blender Foundation\Blender\Cache\`.
Reviewed By: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12822
Also replace integer with bool in Ghost API when only used as boolean,
and uint8* with char* in Ghost API when variable is a string.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11617
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Rishel <rishel.nick@gmail.com>
The function is supposed to fail gracefully if there is some error. That
includes not being able to find `xdg-user-dir`. So don't let the error
be printed to the console, it's misleading/annoying.
From what I can tell we'll detect that problem fine and return NULL
then.
When we had to get special user directories, we'd usually do it in varying,
rather ad-hoc ways. It would be done with a bunch of `#ifdef`s for the
different operating systems. Also, some of the used Win32 functions were legacy
ones and the API docs recommend using newer ones.
Further, seems `BKE_appdir_folder_default()` used `XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR` wrong.
It's not supposed to be an environment variable but a value inside a config
file.
This adds the platform dependent logic to Ghost, so we can abstract it away
nicely using the `GHOST_ISystemPaths` interface. Getting the desktop directory
for example can now easily be done with:
`GHOST_getUserSpecialDir(GHOST_kUserSpecialDirDesktop).`
For now I added the logic for desktop, documents, downloads, videos, images and
music directories, even though we only use the Documents one. We can extend/
change this as needed, it's easy to do now.
On Windows and macOS, it uses pretty much the same way to access the
directories as elsewhere already. On Linux, it uses the `xdg-user-dir` command
that seems to be available by default on most Linux systems.
No functional changes. The new queries are not actually used yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9800
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
