Best way to get Program Files/Common Files?

[Lucas Zawacki]

I need to get the user configured path to Program Files/Common Files
to save the dinput action mapping settings.

What are the my options for doing this?

One way I found is the SHGetSpecialFolderPath function, but it
requires me to link to shell32 and I suspect there's a better way.

Thanks

[Bruno Jesus]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 18:17, Lucas Zawacki  wrote:
> I need to get the user configured path to Program Files/Common Files
> to save the dinput action mapping settings.
>
> What are the my options for doing this?

Maybe you can use environment variables:
APPDATA
CommonProgramFiles

They are found on Windows >=2000.
> One way I found is the SHGetSpecialFolderPath function, but it
> requires me to link to shell32 and I suspect there's a better way.
>
> Thanks

Best wishes,
Bruno

[Juan Lang]

> I need to get the user configured path to Program Files/Common Files
> to save the dinput action mapping settings.
>
> What are the my options for doing this?
>
> One way I found is the SHGetSpecialFolderPath function, but it
> requires me to link to shell32 and I suspect there's a better way.

I believe this is the preferred way, at least from Microsoft's point of view.
--Juan

[Lucas Zawacki]

Thanks Bruno, ExpandEnvironmentStrings with %CommonProgramFiles% seems
to be a better solution for my needs.