RE: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

[Andrew G. <ag...@cl...>]

The accepted wisdom for the past few years has been for applications to use
SHGet*FolderLocation(), it's certainly something that Microsoft have been
advocating since Win2K started to become mass market and now with every new
consumer system shipping with a varient of XP it's even more important.

GetWindows/System directory are definitely things an application shouldn't
be writing to in the normal course of its operation... The common paths
exposed via environment variables (some of them at least!) are useful for
batch files & scripts.


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andrew grant | programmer | climax brighton
ag...@cl... - www.climax.co.uk








> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Hook [mailto:ho...@py...] 
> Sent: 04 December 2003 21:57
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: RE: [GD-General] A portable preferences library
> 
> 
> > I agree the registry isn't the place to store the data, but 
> neither is 
> > the game install folder. Anything you need to save from 
> your game and 
> > that doesn't ask the user for a path should go into the whatever's 
> > returned by SHGetFolderLocation(.., CSIDL_APPDATA, ..);
> 
> So what's the accepted wisdom now on use SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() 
> vs. GetWindowsDirectory(), GetSystemDirectory() and getenv( 
> "HOMEPATH" 
> )?
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 
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