• Erik Weber (14/14) May 12 2012 Can someone tell me how to create a file within a directory such
• Walter Bright (3/17) May 12 2012 Just build a string that includes the path and the file name, and pass i...
• Erik Weber (8/17) May 13 2012 and pass it to

Erik Weber <my_name_here mindspring.com> writes:

Can someone tell me how to create a file within a directory such
as the user's home directory, or a directory within "Program
Files", with DMC 852?

I cannot get SHGetFolderPath or SHGetKnownFolderPath to compile.
Does DMC support those?

I can create a file with ofstream.open, but only in the working
directory. I don't know how to prepend a path that comes from an
environment variable or by querying the system for something like
CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES or what have you, only a hardcoded path. And
as far as I know you can't use stuff like getpwuid on Windows.

I just want to create a config file for read/write by the
executable.

Thanks,
Erik

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 5/12/2012 1:58 PM, Erik Weber wrote:
 Can someone tell me how to create a file within a directory such
 as the user's home directory, or a directory within "Program
 Files", with DMC 852?

 I cannot get SHGetFolderPath or SHGetKnownFolderPath to compile.
 Does DMC support those?

 I can create a file with ofstream.open, but only in the working
 directory. I don't know how to prepend a path that comes from an
 environment variable or by querying the system for something like
 CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES or what have you, only a hardcoded path. And
 as far as I know you can't use stuff like getpwuid on Windows.

 I just want to create a config file for read/write by the
 executable.

 Thanks,
 Erik

Just build a string that includes the path and the file name, and pass it to 
fopen().

Erik Weber <my_name_here mindspring.com> writes:

== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 digitalmars.com)'s article
 On 5/12/2012 1:58 PM, Erik Weber wrote:
 Can someone tell me how to create a file within a directory


such
 as the user's home directory, or a directory within "Program
 Files", with DMC 852?

 Thanks,
 Erik

 Just build a string that includes the path and the file name,

and pass it to
 fopen().

Thanks Walter. It works. What I was unsure of was how to build the
string. For now I am using getenv. Apparently the preferred way on
Windows is SHGetKnownFolderPath in case environment variables
don't work.

Erik