Subj : Re: Feature request
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed Jan 27 2016 02:26 pm

Hi Michiel,

On 2016-01-27 13:37:36, you wrote to me:

 WV>> Besides the current dir, probably: CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA\Fido\binkd\
 WV>> is a good place.

 MvdV> Arggh! Who can remember that? I will never find it back if it is
 MvdV> plced there. I don't even have such a directory on my system. Not on
 MvdV> the C: drive and not on the D: drive where my Fido stuff is located.

 MvdV> Also: In Windows, names of system directories are different for
 MvdV> different language versions. On my German version of Windows, the
 MvdV> directory where programms are found is called "Programme". There is
 MvdV> another one called "Documente und Einstellungen". Etc, etc.

I had hoped people used google for this! ;)

CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA is a constant you feed to the windows api function 
SHGetFolderPath(), which gives you back "The file system directory that 
contains application data for all users". On XP this is "C:\Documents and 
Settings\All Users\Application Data" (or equivalent for different languages). 
On Windows 7 this is C:\ProgramData\. According to microsoft standards, an 
installer (or program) is supposed to create/use a subdirectory structure in 
there like: "\company\product", and use that for it's common, non user 
specific, data.

Please don't shoot the messenger! ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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