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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 something like: Dir::ADMINTOOLS Dir::BITBUCKET

...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 SHGetSpecialFolderPath instead begin SHGetFolderPath = Win32API.new("shell32","SHGetFolderPath","LLLLP","L") rescue RuntimeError SHGetSpecialFolderPath = Win32API.new("shell32","SHGetSpecialFolderPath", "LPLL","L")...

I tried to download/compile/install win32-dir, but I couldn''t get it to go. Over a private email Daniel Berger had me... "Curious. What platform are you on exactly? Try modifying the extconf.rb file. Add ''have_library("SHFolder")'' above ''have_library("shell32")''. If that doesn''t work, try uncommenting the other

...xp ( sp 2) USERENV(27c.280) 16:28:16:828 GetUserGuid: Failed to get user guid with 1355. USERENV(27c.280) 16:28:16:828 GetUserGuid: Failed to get user guid with 1355. USERENV(27c.280) 16:28:16:953 GetUserGuid: Failed to get user guid with 1355. USERENV(27c.280) 16:28:17:984 GetSpecialFolderPath : ShGetSpecialFolderPath failed, hr = 800703F0 USERENV(6e0.6f4) 16:28:18:296 MigrateNT4ToNT5: Failed to get root registry key with 0 USERENV(28c.290) 16:29:02:421 CUserProfile::GetRefCountAndFlags: RegQueryValueEx failed, key = S-1-5-21-1569642236-1413433477-3613035652-5264, error = 00000002 USERENV(28c.290) 16:29:02:468 C...

...xp ( sp 2) USERENV(27c.280) 16:28:16:828 GetUserGuid: Failed to get user guid with 1355. USERENV(27c.280) 16:28:16:828 GetUserGuid: Failed to get user guid with 1355. USERENV(27c.280) 16:28:16:953 GetUserGuid: Failed to get user guid with 1355. USERENV(27c.280) 16:28:17:984 GetSpecialFolderPath : ShGetSpecialFolderPath failed, hr = 800703F0 USERENV(6e0.6f4) 16:28:18:296 MigrateNT4ToNT5: Failed to get root registry key with 0 USERENV(28c.290) 16:29:02:421 CUserProfile::GetRefCountAndFlags: RegQueryValueEx failed, key = S-1-5-21-1569642236-1413433477-3613035652-5264, error = 00000002 USERENV(28c.290) 16:29:02:468 C...

...several platforms. shell32/tests: Fix some test failures on Windows 7. kernel32/tests: Fix some intermittent crashes/failures on Vista+. shell32/tests: Run tests on NT4 again. shell32/tests: Only fetch some special folders once. shell32/tests: Cope with systems lacking SHGetSpecialFolderPath. shell32/tests: Use ReadCabinetState to check title logic. shell32/tests: Fix test failures on Vista and higher. shell32/tests: Remove an unneeded HeapAlloc. shell32/tests: Change a trace into a skip for skipped tests. include: Add some system parameters. advapi3...