[Closed] Pathname for User Root Directory?

Aug 13, 2010 6:13 pm

How does one get to the Users plugcfg folder via getDir? I noticed of course there is #userMacro, #userScript, ect. for some odd reason no symbolic pathname to the ‘local version’ root or at the least the plugcfg directory?

Not really a big deal just curious if anybody writes there .ini’s to the user plucfg directory instead of the max root plugcfg directory.

thanks,
john

4 Replies

DavidM

Aug 13, 2010 6:13 pm

Did you try getDir #plugcfg ? Because it does return the user plugcfg folder path here.

JohnnyRandom

Aug 13, 2010 6:13 pm

stupid me, actually no I didn’t thanks and that was about as easy as it gets…

reading instead of doing, from the help file: (doesn’t state local or global)

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LoneRobot

Aug 13, 2010 6:13 pm

you can also use the PathSDK class in the managedservices.dll for a Dot Net version of this –

show (dotnetclass "managedservices.pathsdk+DirectoryID")
    .Animation : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Archives : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Autoback : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Download : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Drivers : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Export : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Expression : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Font : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Help : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Image : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Import : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .ManagedAssemblies : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .MarketDefaults : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .MaterialLibrary : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .MaxData : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .MaxStart : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .MaxSystemRoot : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Photometric : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .PlugInConfig : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Preview : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .ProjectFolder : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Proxies : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .RenderAssets : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .RenderOutput : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .RenderPresets : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Scene : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Scripts : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Sound : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .StartupScripts : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .Temp : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .UI : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .UserIcons : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .UserMacros : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .UserScripts : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .UserStartupScripts : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
    .VideoPost : <ManagedServices.PathSDK+DirectoryID>, read-only, static
  
  (dotnetclass "managedservices.pathsdk").GetDirectoryPath (dotnetclass "managedservices.pathsdk+DirectoryID").PlugInConfig
  "C:\Users\PeteAddington\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2010 - 64bit\enu\plugcfg"

JohnnyRandom

Aug 13, 2010 6:13 pm

hmmn, cool, now that is handy, thank you