Is there any subsitute of getenv function under WinRT?
Or maybe it's not possible to access environment variables at all?
I believe it is not possible to retrieve environment variables from a WinRT app. However, your app has a local, roaming, and temp folder available to it. Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current has all the root folders you need to create/read/delete files and folders in your app's folders.
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I have a file I need to get into the Google Cloud Function's directory for a multi-step problem. Matplotlib: Custom fonts in cloud functions using Python 3.9
I'm not sure how to do it. Do I do it as a function in cloud functions? or use the console terminal for the project? I tried that and looked in the root directory and there was nothing there. I can only change projects and not change to a specific function directory.
Can someone please show me how to put this file https://www.1001freefonts.com/balthazar.font into the function's file system so it can be called during execution?
When you deploy a Cloud Function to GCP, you can supply a ZIP file or a directory that contains your source code and additional artifacts/files that you may need.
To perform the deployment of the ZIP or directory, you will want to use the gcloud command. A good article on this is Deploying from Your Local Machine.
The detailed documentation on the CLI can be found at gcloud functions deploy.
In your example, you could create a directory that contains your source and your font file and both will be present in the context of the Cloud Function. I believe that if you want to reference the files, you will want to use the local current directory in your code. For example, instead of coding /myfontfile.font you might code ./myfontfile.font.
Here are some references to this technique:
Cloud Functions: how to upload additional file for use in code?
I am using Flash Builder 4.6 to develop an Android game using Air. When I debug on PC it works fine, however when I plug in my Android phone and attempt to debug, I get an error with the location of a db file.
This is what I presently have the location set to:
private static var DefaultDB:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("com/arakaron/Assets/Database/DefaultDb.db");
What / where should I be setting it to? It seems that when I debug the app, nothing gets transferred to the phone as I can't find any Arakaron resources on the phone.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.
You can't access the DB in this way.
Please use below code.
File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("DefaultDb.db");
Your db has to be within the application storage. If you want to have inside the folder then you define the folder name like below:
File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("db\DefaultDb.db");
The File.applicationDirectory on Android refers to your application and assets. On Android this is contained packaged in your APK and assets are decompressed in memory by the OS when you access them. You shouldn't use this directory unless you are reading assets from your package. Assets in this directory can only be accessed via a url and won't have a nativePath property.
Most likely you should use the File.applicationStorageDirectory or if the files can be safely deleted without breaking the operation of your application you should use the File.cacheDirectory.
You can read more on these locations: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7fe4.html
If you package a database with your application you should use the File copy process to copy the file to one of the above locations before attempting to access it as a database.
I'm starting a new web app with Openshift (jboss, mysql). It's the first time I use openshift and after reading through some doc and experimenting a bit with it, I'm having one question regarding best practices for the architecture of my app.
There will be some files generated by- or uploaded to the application (resources). I'd like those files to be outside the deployment folder so they are not erased/overwritten when the app deploys again. I have browsed through the directories and I was wondering:
is it ok to use the /var/lib/openshift/[openshift-id]/app-root/data folder for these files?
Yes, you should use your ~/app-root/data folder for any files that you want to not be erased when you do a git push, there is also an environment variable that you can use that points to that folder called OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR. Please note that if you are using a scaled application, that folder is not shared among your gears.
I am using a cross-platform library in a Windows Runtime Component (C++) in a Windows 8.1 Store (Metro) app. This library makes C style file calls such as fopen, stat, etc.
These operations work fine when the file is in the local app scope (e.g. in the app's local directory). But if the file is located in other locations (for instance on the "Desktop") then these operations fail. Is there a way to make fopen and other file calls outside the local app folder without having to switch to StorageFile? As an alternative I can only think of copying all files to the local app folder.
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I have a directory with files and I want to search into that directory for some files types.
Is it possible to do that with the new file-system API?
No, You are restricted to a sand-boxed directory client side directory within the AppData for your web-browswer.
With Chrome and windows 7 for example:
C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\{browswer-user}\Default\File System\
Also, you can only access files/directories you've generated and populated via API calls.