Can you read the fs9.cfg directly?

[Guest bartels]

Is there a way to detect the location of the fs9.cfg automatically by C gauges? I can read it with e.g. GetPrivateProfileString if I know the exact path, no problem. But how to get that path? Or, are there global variables that store that "user data" path somewhere?Arne Bartels

[Guest HartmannH]

There's shell variable called "USERPROFILE" which contains the path you need but I'm pretty sure that it only exists in Windows XP so it won't be very helpful.

[Guest bartels]

OK, found it myself:#include ...char appdata[MAX_PATH+1]="";char value[255+1]="";...SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL,appdata,CSIDL_APPDATA,FALSE);strcat(appdata,"MicrosoftFS9fs9.cfg"); ...GetPrivateProfileString("PANELS","IMAGE_QUALITY","",value,sizeof(value)-1,appdata);link shell32.lib.Possibly the exename has to be used, not "fs9.cfg" hardwired. If the exe is renamed, the .cfg file uses this new name.Arne BartelsP.S. checked with XP SP2 and W98SE

[Guest HartmannH]

Hey, den kannte ich noch nicht. Vielen Dank :-)

[Guest bartels]

Wildes Suchen hilft manchmal. Erst hatte ich Appdata als Begriff gefunden, bei MSDN fiel mir dann irgendwann "SHGetSpecialFolderPath" vor die F

[wsieffert 0]

I was going to suggest you guys get new keyboards!:-lolW. Sieffert

[Guest zip]

You can also scan the software keys in the Windows registry - I haven't looked but I'm pretty sure that the install folder is in the LOCAL_MACHINE/software hive and the path to the CFG is in the LOCAL_USER/software hive (since each user has a personal copy of the CFG file).That should work with Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

[Guest bartels]

In adition a check if the exe name/cfg name is NOT fs9:#include #include ... char appdata[MAX_PATH+1] = "", exename[MAX_PATH+1] = "", *helper = NULL;... //get full exe pathname GetModuleFileName(NULL,exename,MAX_PATH); //cut path helper=strrchr(exename,''); if(helper) sprintf(exename,"%s",helper+1); //cut .exe suffix helper=strstr(exename,".exe"); if(helper) *helper=0; //get FS9.cfg path, first appdata, then rest SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL,appdata,CSIDL_APPDATA,FALSE); sprintf(appdata,"%sMicrosoftFS9%s.cfg",appdata,exename); ...Arne Bartels