[fpc-pascal]divining windows system paths

[Matt Emson]

Wasn't me, some other guy. I just told how it usually get's done in Delphi.

Matt


>Matt,
>
> > You may be able to get away with dropping the IMalloc calls. I really 
>don't
> > know. You may end up crashing/screwing up Explorer though, as Explorer 
>('the
> > shell') has to explicitly release all memory it allocates.
>
>There are two ways, SHGetSpecialFolderLocation and SHGetSpecialFolderPath.
>With the second, you have to use IMalloc because the system allocates the
>memory and expects you to free it. Therefore, Using SHGetSpecialFolderPath
>seems to be much simpler (it is a single call, not the complex structures
>you quoted, returning the path directly instead of a PIDL which you have to
>convert to a path and deallocate yourself) but the problem is that it is
>only available starting from version of 4.71 of Shell32.dll (this means
>2000, ME or Internet Explorer 4.0 or later installed on previous systems).
>
>However, there is a redistributable ShFolder.dll which you are free to
>include with your program and then you'll be able to use this simpler
>function on any system and version.
>
>
>Bye,
>    Gábor
>
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>E-mail: djg at tramontana.co.hu
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