Re: How to get user's local setting folder

From: Andrew Diabo (aadiabo_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 04:26:20 -0400

Hi Mike,

Sorry for being thick. I got it now. Thanks so much.

Andrew

"Mike Shkolnik" <mshkolnik2002@ukr.net> wrote in message
news:40af8742@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Andrew,
>
> as I noted in prev.message, you must use the CSIDL_APPDATA parameter
>
> --
> With best regards, Mike Shkolnik
> E-mail: mshkolnik@scalabium.com
> WEB: http://www.scalabium.com
>
> "Andrew Diabo" <aadiabo@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:40af7ee1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > Thanks for the tip. How do I get the Local Settings of a user typically:
> > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.HOMEGROUP\Local
> Settings\Application
> > Data
> >
> > What parameter should I use?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > "Mike Shkolnik" <mshkolnik2002@ukr.net> wrote in message
> > news:40af73e7@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > > Andrew,
> > >
> > > you need the SHGetSpecialFolderLocation with CSIDL_APPDATA parameter.
> See
> > > the sample:
> > > ******************************
> > > Delphi tip#106: to read a path of system folder
> > > http://www.scalabium.com/faq/dct0106.htm
> > > ******************************
> > >
> > > --
> > > With best regards, Mike Shkolnik
> > > E-mail: mshkolnik@scalabium.com
> > > WEB: http://www.scalabium.com
> > >
> > > "Andrew Diabo" <aadiabo@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> > > news:40aec8d2@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > > > I would like to save my applications settings .ini file in the login
> > > user's
> > > > local setting folder. What is the Windows API to get that folder?
> Thanks
> > > for
> > > > any help.
> > > >
> > > > Andrew
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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