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Hi all, I was taking another look at SHGetFolderPath() and related stuff today based on suggestions from Shanko and Zach. I think this would be fairly simple. My main question is, where do we put these values? Under File, Dir, or Shell? Or somewhere else? I vote Dir, since all the special CSIDL seem to be directories. Thus you would have someth...

...t I get from running ''ruby extconf.rb'' is... C:\unzipped\WIN32-~2.0\WIN32-~1.0>ruby extconf.rb checking for main() in shlwapi.lib... yes checking for main() in SHFolder.lib... no checking for main() in shell32.lib... yes checking for main() in comctl32.lib... yes checking for SHGetFolderPath()... no creating Makefile I then ran a: C:\WINNT\system32>dumpbin /exports shell32.dll | grep SH (yes i have unix tools) and found that I don''t have SHGetFolderPath. I have SHGetFolderPathA and SHGetFolderPathW. The actual compiles I got are listed below this email. I am running......

...the dang thing in pure Ruby using Win32API. That will solve''s Zach''s problem and make it easier to add Timothy''s code, which I plan to add (slightly modified) to the 0.2.0 release. The code is below. One thing I have a question about is how to handle the situation where SHGetFolderPath is not found. I just wrapped it in a begin/rescue clause. Does that seem a reasonable approach? Regards, Dan PS - There are a few extra constants to boot (I dug them out of the header files). require "Win32API" module Win32 # SHGetFolderPath may not be defined # If not, use...