How do i find the start menu path?

[Robert van Herk]

Hi people,

I have a question for my start menu generator, that is almost finished 
now...

How do I find the path of the wine start menu? (for me it's 
~/c/windows/Start Menu, but for someone else it does not have to be like 
that...)

Any help here?

Grtz,
Robert

[Martin Fuchs]

Hello Robert,
> I have a question for my start menu generator, that is almost finished 
> now...
>
> How do I find the path of the wine start menu? (for me it's 
> ~/c/windows/Start Menu, but for someone else it does not have to be like 
> that...)
>
> Any help here?

Ypu should use the function
SHGetSpecialFolderPath():

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/pla...

Using CSIDL_STARTMENU and CSIDL_COMMON_STARTMENU you get the root path of
the user's respective the common start menu:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <shlobj.h>

void process_startmenu(LPCTSTR path)
{

// process start menu entries

}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    TCHAR path[1024];

if (SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0, path, CSIDL_STARTMENU, FALSE)) {
    	printf("user start menu root: %s\n", path);

process_startmenu(path);
    }

if (SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0, path, CSIDL_COMMON_STARTMENU, FALSE)) {
    	printf("common start menu root: %s\n", path);

process_startmenu(path);
    }

return 0;
}