RE: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

[Tom S. <to...@pi...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Andrew Grant

> 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.

	For example some slightly popular games GTA3 and GTA3: Vice City
place save games into a directory in the current users My Documents
folder.  So does the latest Deus Ex 2 demo.  And even though I've
uninstalled all three I still have my save games in a place where I can
find them and decide to keep or delete them.  Also knowing that I can
just backup my documents and just re-install my games Is really nice.
Better than each end user becoming an expert in different games
particular standard for keeping their data.  

	About three years ago I remember speaking to some DX guy about a
standard they were working on for PC game installs.  Something about
using a fixed percentage of the drive for game installs and it
automatically managing it.  Anyone remember anything about that or was
that a crunch mode delusion?

	Also where does SHGetSpecialFolderPath( CSIDL_PERSONAL ) ( My
Documents ) go on Win98/ME systems?

	Tom