C / C++ / MFC

moloza wrote:

All what I have now is visual C++ express and little c++ langauge experience.

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." - Native American Proverb

DavidCrow wrote:

plate with two strikes against you (baseball analogy).

DavidCrow wrote:

(baseball analogy)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

std::string GetApplicationDataPath()
{
    std::auto_ptr<char> path( new char[MAX_PATH]);

    const HRESULT result = ::SHGetFolderPath( NULL, CSIDL_APPDATA, NULL, SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT, path.get());

    if( result != S_OK)
        return std::string();
    else    {
        std::string s( path.get());
        if( s.at( s.size()-1) != '\\')
            s += '\\';
        return s + _T("\\MyApp\\");
    }
}