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2003-11-29 06:30:21 PM
cppbuilder57
My program creates a folder in the folder
Documents and Settings\user01\Application Data
I'm getting the name of the user by calling the function getenv().
AnsiString userPath;
userPath = AnsiString(getenv("USERPROFILE"));
CreateDir(userPath + "\\Application Data\\Folder1");
If the value of the environment variable USERPROFILE contains a character
with a
ascii value between 128 and 255, getenv() replaces this character with
another
character and CreateDir() function doesn't work because there is no such
folder.
Maybe, is there a better method than using getenv()?
Thanks...
 

"Umut Ozden" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
Or better yet, you should really be using SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() with
the CSIDL_APPDATA flag instead, it already determines the appropriate folder
name automatically for you. SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() is the official
function to use for determining various system-defined paths:
SHGetSpecialFolderLocation Function
msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shgetspecialfolderlocation.asp
LPITEMIDLIST pidl = NULL;
char path[MAX_PATH+1] = {0};
if( SUCCEEDED(SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(NULL, CSIDL_APPDATA, &pidl)) )
{
if( SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, path) );
CreateDir(IncludeTrailingBackslash(path) + "Folder1");
CoTaskMemFree(pidl);
}
Gambit
 

error messages. "Undefined symbol LPITEMIDLIST...". Furthermore, the help
for SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() in Win32 Programmer's Reference does not
contain CSIDL_APPDATA as second parameter. Anything wrong?
 

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"Umut Ozden" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
shlobj.h. If you are using BCB5 or BCB6, you will also need to add
NO_WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN to your project's Conditionals list in order to
compile that header correctly.
I gave you, you will see the latest documentation at MSDN (which is always
up to date), which lists all of the supported values including
CSIDL_APPDATA.
Gambit