Re: SHGetSpecialFolderLocation!

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:40

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"Rodolfo Frino" <rodolfofrino@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3f42a46c@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Get rid of CoTaskMemFree function since you did
> not allocate with neither CoTaskMemAlloc nor
> CoTaskMemRealloc functions.

Do not get rid of it!  Your code did not allocate the ITEMIDLIST, but
SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() did.  Because the memory was returned to your
code, it is your code's responsibility to free the memory.  Otherwise it is
leaked.

>      if (!SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(0, Folder, &List))
>         if (SHGetPathFromIDList(List, Path))
>            return String(Path);

The ITEMIDLIST is being leaked in that code.


Gambit


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