XWin design suggestion

[Harold L Hunt II]

Cary,

SHGetFolderPath is precisely what I was looking for.  Thanks for finding 
it for me.

Harold

Cary Jamison wrote:
> "Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote in message
> news:<3EB7B438.60809@msu.edu>...
> 
>>Biju,
>>
>>I think we all forgot about one option: Why don't we use the interface
> 
> 
>>to (for example) C:\Documents and Settings\User_Foo\Application 
>>Data\CygwinXFree86\... ?  Is there such an interface or is it largely 
>>just an issue of getting the proper directory to write your config
> 
> files to?
> 
>>I believe that their may be an actual interface to that directory in 
>>Windows 2000 and later, while Windows 95/98/Me might still need some 
>>hand-coding.  Has anyone used this before?  I know that Mozilla stores
> 
> 
>>its settings in a directory under either Application Data or 
>>User_Foo\Local Settings.
>>
>>I think Microsoft has recognized that the registry hinders
> 
> installation 
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>>of applications, rather than helping it, and they seem to be offering 
>>this new standarized area for config files.
>>
>>Anyone worked with this before?
>>
>>Harold
> 
> 
> Sounds like what you want is SHGetFolderPath.  Look it up in MSDN - you
> should find that it will do what you want for NT/2K/XP and 95/98/Me
> systems.
> 
> Cary