How do I find the path to documents folder? NW.JS

Most modern games create save files in the default Documents folder, for example \Documents\StudioName\GameName\save01.dat

How do I find the path to this folder with NWJS?

NWJS.UserFolder returns the path to my user folder, which is "C:\Users\dop2000\"

The documents folder is there, but depending on Windows version it may be named "Documents" or "My Documents" or may be even be in some other language. So how do I locate it?

And what is the best location for game saves on Mac?

Thanks, this is really helpful!

There is one problem though - you can change the location of Documents folder in Windows. I don't think many people do this, but still.. In that case the folder may not be in the home directory at all.

I'm surprised there is no default environment variable in Windows like %DOCUMENTS%.

It is possible to get the folder location from windows registry, but I'm not sure how to do this in Construct. Run File "reg.exe query key_name >> file.txt", and then read that file?

I think we are limited but what modules are included in nwjs. Unless you know how to add more?

Running regedit to find the documents folder is one option. But seems messy.

There is a winapi function that you can use to get the location of the documents folder, but it's only accessible from c. Or we could get it with the node ffi module if it was included with nwjs.

Anyways here is the source of a simple c program that just prints the users documents folder location.

getDocumentsFolder.c

#include <stdio.h>
#define CSIDL_PERSONAL 5
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>
#include <tchar.h>

int main()
{
	TCHAR DocumentsPath[MAX_PATH];
	SHGetSpecialFolderPathW(NULL, DocumentsPath, CSIDL_PERSONAL, 1);
	wprintf(L"%ls", DocumentsPath);
	return 0;
}

tcc getDocumentsFolder.c -l"shell32"

require("child_process").execFileSync("getDocumentsFolder.exe",null,{encoding:"utf8"})