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Hi Fernando -

Check out this site for the SHGetSpecialFolderPath Function:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shgetspecialfolderpath.asp

and for the CSIDL parameter:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/enums/csidl.asp


Now, as far as your compiler error, I've run into this one a few times.  Hopefully this site will be of some help:

http://www.bcbdev.com/faqs/faq91.htm

Hope this helps-

Mark





>I couldn't find that function, but did find SHGetSpecilaFolderLocation().
>However, when I try to include shlobj.h in order to use it, I get a compiler
>error.
>[C++ Error] shobjidl.h(2193): E2238 Multiple declaration for 'FOLDERSETTINGS'
>[C++ Error] shobjidl.h(8095): E2238 Multiple declaration for 'DESKBANDINFO'
>[C++ Error] shlobj.h(1422): E2238 Multiple declaration for 'FVSHOWINFO'
>[C++ Error] shlobj.h(3457): E2238 Multiple declaration for 'SHELLFLAGSTATE'
>
>This is the code:
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>#include <vcl.h>
>#include <windows.h>
>#include <shlobj.h>
>#pragma hdrstop
>#include "Unit1.h"
>//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>#pragma package(smart_init)
>
>
>AnsiString GetSpecialFolderPath(int nFolder)
>{
>AnsiString retPath;
>char szPath[_MAX_PATH];
>LPITEMIDLIST pidl;
> HRESULT hr = SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(NULL, nFolder, &pidl);
> if (hr==NOERROR && SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, szPath))
>  retPath=szPath;
> // Allocate a pointer to an IMalloc interface
> LPMALLOC pMalloc;
> // Get the address of our task allocator's IMalloc interface
> hr = SHGetMalloc(&pMalloc);
> // Free the item ID list allocated by SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
> pMalloc->Free(pidl);
> // Free our task allocator
> pMalloc->Release();
>return retPath;
>}