RE: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

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

> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of J C Lawrence

> > Maybe I'm hard-core, but I think everything an application needs to 
> > operate, short of the absolutely guaranteed resources of 
> the operating 
> > system, should be packaged with the application -- and totally 
> > portable.
> 
> In the case of user preferences this violates the model of 
> segmented access rights and patterns as it requires that 
> users have write access to the installation point the 
> application.

	Maybe one that wants to maintain application controlled config
selection ala BF1942 for instance, yet not violate the write access of
non-admin accounts should use SHGetFolderLocation( CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA
), CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS, or whatever is equivalent to 'C:\Documents
and Settings\All Users\' in other OSs.  

	Tom