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Article #15529Re: What is the Correct way to get a special folder location?
From: Zack
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 15:29
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 15:29
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Hi Martin, "Martin Golm" <golm@gmx.de> wrote [...] > What about using SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(), as Remy also suggested? I > don't know about SHGetSpecialFolderPath() [it doesn't exist in BC++5 > with which I mostly work], but I know that SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() > does work on all 32-bit Windows platforms. It's probably a bit more code > to write. But, who cares? Yes - of course. Its really no big deal. I will most likely rewrite this tiny part of the code as suggested. I just wanted to get input to be sure that I wasnt off my rocker with this strangeness of NT4. Thanx. Zack.
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