StreamingAssets folder documentation is incorrect for Mac standalone

I followed the tutorial here and wanted to hard code the folder locations. I didn't really notice at the time that there was now a function for getting the folder location without having to go the extra mile. Their suggestions are correct for the Unity editor on Mac, but they are false for the standalone.

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/StreamingAssets.html

I recently wrote a blog post http://clubconsortya.blogspot.com/2013/07/loading-connection-data-from-xml.html discussing this, and I hope that no one used my code for a Mac standalone. They must not have because no one e-mailed me to complain. This only took me ohhh 8 hours of coding thinking there was a problem with NGUI before I ultimately realized that the Unity documentation was misleading, well except int that it did say I shouldn't do it the way that I did.

Can we fix the documentation page?

Code (csharp):

1. // For the streaming assets folder
2. public static string GetPath(string fileName)
3. {
4. #if UNITY_IPHONE
5.  string path = Application.dataPath + @"/Raw";
6. #elif UNITY_ANDROID
7.  string path = "jar:file://" + Application.dataPath
8.           + "!/assets/";
9. #else
10.  string path = Application.dataPath + @"/StreamingAssets";
11. #endif
12.  //append the name of the actual file
13.  path += @"/" + fileName;
14.    
15.  return path;
16. }
17.  
18. //Update 8/21/2013 This is a more accurate function that will never fail
19. public static string GetPathUsingUnityWrapper(string fileName)
20. {
21.     string path = System.IO.Path.Combine(Application.streamingAssetsPath, fileName);
22.     return path;
23. }

 

As well as posting it here, did you submit a bug report using the bug report tool? There's a category for documentation bugs too.

 

Just tried that, but the bug reporter is crashing . I'll try again tomorrow.

 

OK, I finally got the bug submitted today. It felt really bad when the bug submission had a crash bug.

 

Did you report that bug? lol