WinMo 'special' Paths (%CE1..20%)

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TheBrilliantMistake

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Does anybody know how any of these paths can be deduced from within Basic4PPC?

I am very reluctant to hard coede any "Windows\Start Menu" paths, since I believe these can be affected by locale... therefore would prefer to use an official way to deduce those paths.

I am porting code from Mortscript, having determined that Basic is slightly more flexible for my tools...
Sadly, I can't find any reference to these special paths in the documentation.

Any help would be very welcome!
 
agraham

agraham

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There is a way in .NET on a device to find the ApplicationData, Personal, Programs, StartMenu, and Startup folders. It is probably a good idea to add some of these to my FilesEx library but you will have to purchase basic4ppc to get access to these additional libraries (of which there are lots - many written by me :)).
 
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TheBrilliantMistake

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agraham said:
There is a way in .NET on a device to find the ApplicationData, Personal, Programs, StartMenu, and Startup folders. It is probably a good idea to add some of these to my FilesEx library but you will have to purchase basic4ppc to get access to these additional libraries (of which there are lots - many written by me :)).
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I am having a good look at the registry to see if I can spot an entry holding the paths... for the moment, I only need the startmenu folder... but I suspect other developers might want a more comprehensive list. That said, nobody else seems to have asked the question, so maybe nobody else cares! ;-)

many are under HKLM\System\Explorer, but not the Start Menu grrr
 
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sitajony

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On the Hardware library there're already the special folders paths...
hw.GetSpecialFolder(hw.sfStartMenu) etc...
 
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