System dependant functions (skeletons) to retrieve user and system base dirs.

Thus #defines in BLI_bfile.c can be dropped, as suggested by Damien Plisson.
Feel free to fill in the non Unix ones. For extra info see:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/ResourceFilePaths
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/EnvironmentVariables

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/intern/ghost/GHOST_ISystem.h b/intern/ghost/GHOST_ISystem.h
index 8e9ac2b51ff..5e0c7f41ab8 100644
--- a/intern/ghost/GHOST_ISystem.h
+++ b/intern/ghost/GHOST_ISystem.h
@@ -371,6 +371,24 @@ public:
 	virtual void putClipboard(GHOST_TInt8 *buffer, bool selection) const = 0;
 
 	
+	/***************************************************************************************
+	 ** Determine special paths.
+	 ***************************************************************************************/
+
+	/**
+	 * Determine the base dir in which shared resources are located. It will first try to use
+	 * "unpack and run" path, then look for properly installed path, not including versioning.
+	 * @return Unsigned char string pointing to system dir (eg /usr/share/blender/).
+	 */
+	virtual GHOST_TUns8* getSystemDir() const = 0;
+
+	/**
+	 * Determine the base dir in which user configuration is stored, not including versioning.
+	 * If needed, it will create the base directory.
+	 * @return Unsigned char string pointing to user dir (eg ~/.blender/).
+	 */
+	virtual GHOST_TUns8* getUserDir() const = 0;
+
 protected:
 	/**
 	 * Initialize the system.