[fpc-devel] End of support for Win XP?
Denis Kozlov
dezlov at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 03:24:07 CET 2018
Improved windirs.GetWindowsSpecialDir is ready:
https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=33133
The submitted patch contains the following changes:
1. Added FOLDERID_* constants, required for SHGetKnownFolderPath.
2. Added mapping of legacy CSIDL_* constants to FOLDERID_* constants.
3. Overloaded GetWindowsSpecialDir to work with both CSIDL_* or
FOLDERID_* constants.
4. Changed GetWindowsSpecialDir to fallback to an alternative API (using
appropriate remapping of parameters) when the default API function is
not available.
Existing code that uses GetWindowsSpecialDir(CSIDL_*) should not be
affected, except for an improved forward compatibility when the
deprecated SHGetFolderPath is finally removed from Windows API, in which
case a newer API function will be used automatically.
Denis
On 01/02/2018 13:31, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote:
> Am 01.02.2018 14:08 schrieb "Denis Kozlov" <dezlov at gmail.com
> <mailto:dezlov at gmail.com>>:
>
> A proposal:
> 1) Use windirs.GetWindowsSpecialDir in fpttf.pp, which already
> uses a more backwards compatible SHGetFolderPath().
> 2) Optionally, improve windirs.GetWindowsSpecialDir to use a newer
> SHGetKnownFolderPath() when it is available.
>
> If this is suitable, I can produce a patch for both.
>
>
> I would be in favor of this, especially as it hides the gritty details
> from fpttf.pp.
> Report them as two separate issues, please.
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