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Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

Ganesh_T8-May-06 3:23

Ganesh_T

8-May-06 3:23

use:

SHGetSpecialFolderLocation()

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Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

YaronNir8-May-06 3:26

YaronNir

8-May-06 3:26

thanks!

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Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

YaronNir8-May-06 3:30

YaronNir

8-May-06 3:30

wait! if i use CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS then it returns E_INVALIDARG????

help??

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Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

Hamid_RT8-May-06 3:33

Hamid_RT

8-May-06 3:33

like this:
LPITEMIDLIST pidl;
HRESULT hr = SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(NULL,CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS, &pidl);

Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

YaronNir8-May-06 3:38

YaronNir

8-May-06 3:38

thanks,

can u show me snippet of what to do with the pidl later, i read i need to global malloc it then global free it in order to translate it to a string??

thanks

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Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

Hamid_RT8-May-06 3:42

Hamid_RT

8-May-06 3:42

see here[^]
maybe it is some helpful to you

Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

YaronNir8-May-06 3:42

YaronNir

8-May-06 3:42

actually this result as well hr=INVALID_ARG.......

help??

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Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

Hamid_RT8-May-06 4:07

Hamid_RT

8-May-06 4:07

use CSIDL_PERSONAL
it seem that your problem is same with
here[^]

Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

YaronNir8-May-06 4:19

YaronNir

8-May-06 4:19

10x!

Yaron

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Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

Eric Dahlvang8-May-06 4:03

Eric Dahlvang

8-May-06 4:03

Do you want to create a file in the My Documents folder?

This is from the VS 2005 help file:
szPath will contain the path to My Documents.
If you just want the path in szPath, and don't need to create a file, then don't send in the CSIDL_FLAG_CREATE flag.

TCHAR szPath[MAX_PATH];
if(SUCCEEDED(SHGetFolderPath(NULL, 
                             CSIDL_PERSONAL|CSIDL_FLAG_CREATE, 
                             NULL, 
                             0, 
                             szPath))) 
{
    PathAppend(szPath, TEXT("New Doc.txt"));
    HANDLE hFile = CreateFile(szPath, ...);
}

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Re: Retrieving "My documents" folder

YaronNir8-May-06 4:19

YaronNir

8-May-06 4:19

10x!

Yaron

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CString to char*

big_denny_2008-May-06 3:05

big_denny_200

8-May-06 3:05

hi all

for example if I have

CString sVal = _T("something"); //unicode

how to assign sVal to a const char * variable ?

const char * pVal = ... ?

thanks

Re: CString to char*

Try8-May-06 3:14

Try

8-May-06 3:14

Using strcpy() function

Re: CString to char*

Monty²8-May-06 3:14

Monty²

8-May-06 3:14

big_denny_200 wrote:
const char * pVal = ... ?

Try this

const char * pVal = (LPCTSTR)sVal;

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Re: CString to char*

Hamid_RT8-May-06 3:27

Hamid_RT

8-May-06 3:27

CString str=_T("Hello");
const char *buffer;

buffer=(const char*)LocalAlloc(LPTR,20);
strcpy((char*)buffer,str);
LocalFree((HLOCAL)buffer);

Re: CString to char*

Russell^'8-May-06 3:28

Russell^'

8-May-06 3:28

Monty2 wrote:
Try this

const char * pVal = (LPCTSTR)sVal;

Can I add something?
Using this way we have to be carefull using pVal in WRITE mode: the pointer points to the local CString object!

Hope it helps.

Re: CString to char*

Monty²8-May-06 3:30

Monty²

8-May-06 3:30

_Russell_ wrote:
Using this way we have to be carefull using pVal in WRITE mode: the pointer points to the local CString object!

Ofcourse

Thanks for the correction.

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Re: CString to char*

V_shr8-May-06 4:03

V_shr

8-May-06 4:03

const char * pVal = sVal.c_str();

Re: CString to char*

Michael Dunn8-May-06 6:53

Michael Dunn

8-May-06 6:53

The other answers won't work in a Unicode build. You need to convert your CString to ANSI to assign it to a char* variable. The quickest way is:

#include <atlconv.h>
 
{
USES_CONVERSION;
CString sVal = _T("something");
const char* p = T2CA(LPCTSTR(sVal));
}

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Platform

yoti118-May-06 3:00

yoti11

8-May-06 3:00

Hello,
How can I check on which paltform the program is running?
(Such as: windows 2003, NT, 98 etc).
Thanks.

-- modified at 9:34 Monday 8th May, 2006

Re: Platform

Monty²8-May-06 3:11

Monty²

8-May-06 3:11

Try GetVersionEx[^]

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managed vs unmanaged code

Try8-May-06 2:12

Try

8-May-06 2:12

What are the advantages of unmanaged code over managed code and vice versa?

Re: managed vs unmanaged code

Maxwell Chen8-May-06 4:47

Maxwell Chen

8-May-06 4:47

acemahesh@yahoo.co.in wrote:
the advantages of unmanaged code over managed code and vice versa

Freedom, flexibility, ...

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Problem with ALT+TAb

Ganesh_T8-May-06 1:48

Ganesh_T

8-May-06 1:48

I have created an applicatio having six child dialog. WHen you press ALT+Tab when window is in focus another window which was in focus gets displayed and again if I try doing the same thing the orginal window is displayed .....

But one of my child dialog some thread are executing and IF i press ALT+tab to display it again the windows does not appears but the process continues. When the threads process is completed the window functions well...

I tried with VK_TAB and VK_ALT but it does not work

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Re: Problem with ALT+TAb

Nishad S8-May-06 2:02

Nishad S

8-May-06 2:02

Ganesh_T wrote:
But one of my child dialog some thread are executing

Are you sure that there is another thread rather than the main thread is doing the process?

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