X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xscreensaver;a=blobdiff_plain;f=OSX%2FPrefsReader.m;h=507a557b09b5cbdc498d77f2c6b48f4a370ed923;hp=e3be145696d796f25f9c84fb0f42bdc84646f315;hb=f0261d8acab611f3433160e4f07367b870439739;hpb=7b34ef992563d7bcbb64cc5597dc45fa24470b05

diff --git a/OSX/PrefsReader.m b/OSX/PrefsReader.m
index e3be1456..507a557b 100644
--- a/OSX/PrefsReader.m
+++ b/OSX/PrefsReader.m
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* xscreensaver, Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
+/* xscreensaver, Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
  * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
@@ -210,6 +210,15 @@
     strcpy (result, result+1);
   }
 
+  // Kludge: assume that any string that begins with "~" and has a "/"
+  // anywhere in it should be expanded as if it is a pathname.
+  if (result[0] == '~' && strchr (result, '/')) {
+    os = [NSString stringWithCString:result encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
+    free (result);
+    result = strdup ([[os stringByExpandingTildeInPath]
+                       cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
+  }
+
   return result;
 }