Data files for Quickly apps

Question

My Quickly app requires data files to store settings, configuration and etc. How would I do this inside the app folder. Keep in mind that I will need to read and write to these files while the app is running on a client's computer. Thanks.

Answer 1

This has more to do with general application development than Quickly. Have a look at your home folder and press ctrl+h or the equivalent to show hidden files in your file manager.

Applications who need to store usersettings do this by creating a hidden folder (prefixed with a dot) and write the configuration files there. Other stuff like a database, extra plugins etc can be put here too.

This has to be done in the code at runtime, not during installion. Something like this should be enough:

import os
confdir = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.myapp')
conffile = os.path.join(confdir, 'myapp.conf')
if not os.path.exists(confdir):
    os.makedirs(confdir)
    with open(conffile, 'w') as f:
        f.write('This is the default config')

Have a look at the ConfigParser or JSON module to work with a configuration format.