SHGetSpecialFolderLocation function

[Chris Green]

Hi,
I've been looking into this function, trying to work out why ms office 97 
can't install under Wine. (I've also been looking at the handling of 
command-lines when new processes are spawned, as office's setup program 
spawns a process called acmsetup with a string of command-line options, and 
it seems that wine manages to insert an extra " at the end of the command 
line.)

What I've found though with the SHGetSpecialFolderLocation, is that it seems 
to me that it is designed to allow the caller to pick an arbitrary value for 
the CSIDL, and that this will cause windows to create a new CSIDL. As the 
function's implementation currently stands, it has a hard-coded table of 
possible CSIDLs, and rejects calls with unknown CSIDLs.

Has anyone else looked at this function, and does anyone have any comments or 
suggestions on ways to address this? I'm thinking that these values probably 
need to go into the registry, or something, rather than being stored in the 
code...

regards
Chris Green