Christian Holmquist wrote:
You might be better off calling SHGetFolderPath with a CSIDL value like
CSIDL_APPDATA. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762181.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762494.aspx
I think CSIDL_APPDATA is not the correct flag, we're using the following args to SHGetFolderPath, and it appears to work
char path[MAX_PATH]; bool success = SUCCEEDED(SHGetFolderPath(NULL, CSIDL_PERSONAL | CSIDL_FLAG_CREATE, NULL, 0, path))));
CSIDL_PERSONAL corresponds to the user's 'My Documents' folder, whereas CSIDL_PROFILE corresponds to the user's profile directory which is more consistent with the POSIX 'HOME' directory. Also consensus from discussion on temp_directory_path was that the library should *not* create a directory if one doesn't exist. Hmm, the other drawback of this function is the lack of ability to get the buffer size, and no documented error code corresponding to insufficient buffer size. Is it guaranteed that the buffer size = MAX_PATH is always sufficient?
..and I think this would be a most useful addition to boost::filesystem.
Me too. I've needed this in projects for several different employers over the years. Jeff