[disco_stu]

I'm working on a game in Cocoa that saves the high scores in /Library/Application Support/MyGame/Scores.plist so that they are accessible to every user on the machine. AFAIK, this is exactly where Apple suggests you put these types of resources.

Basically my code checks to see if the directory MyGame is in the /Library/Application Support directory, and creates it if it isn't.

My code works perfectly in my account (because I'm an admin), but I cannot create the folder if I'm in any other (ie, non-admin) account on the machine. It's because I have Read/Write access to the Application Support directory, but everyone else has Read only, and so they cannot create this folder.

What are my options?

Thanks in advance

[Chuckit]

Obviously, you could ask for a password in order to create systemwide high scores and just chmod your directory to be 777 so you can write to it from then on. Or, alternatively, you could put it in the /Users/Shared folder.

[disco_stu]

Originally posted by Chuckit:
Obviously, you could ask for a password in order to create systemwide high scores and just chmod your directory to be 777 so you can write to it from then on. Or, alternatively, you could put it in the /Users/Shared folder.

Thanks for the ideas. It's a really simple game, so it doesn't seem worth it to me to require Administrator privileges just to be able to save the high scores.

I didn't think of /Users/Shared/ - I guess that's an option. Weird, I guess I just thought that this sort of stuff was intended to go in the Application Support directory, but what good is it if only certain people can access it?


Again, thx for the ideas ChuckIt.