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Re: XWin design suggestion
- From: "Cary Jamison" <Cary dot Jamison at powerquest dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:06:53 -0600
- Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
"Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote in message
news:<3EB7B438.60809@msu.edu>...
> Biju,
>
> I think we all forgot about one option: Why don't we use the interface
> to (for example) C:\Documents and Settings\User_Foo\Application
> Data\CygwinXFree86\... ? Is there such an interface or is it largely
> just an issue of getting the proper directory to write your config
files to?
>
> I believe that their may be an actual interface to that directory in
> Windows 2000 and later, while Windows 95/98/Me might still need some
> hand-coding. Has anyone used this before? I know that Mozilla stores
> its settings in a directory under either Application Data or
> User_Foo\Local Settings.
>
> I think Microsoft has recognized that the registry hinders
installation
> of applications, rather than helping it, and they seem to be offering
> this new standarized area for config files.
>
> Anyone worked with this before?
>
> Harold
Sounds like what you want is SHGetFolderPath. Look it up in MSDN - you
should find that it will do what you want for NT/2K/XP and 95/98/Me
systems.
Cary