You might want to look at this link http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.507980 for a discussion of Vista support. I'm sure Microsoft's site has some best practices information, too.
Also, search for CSIDL_APPDATA and SHGetFolderPath - I'm not sure whether you'll have problems trying to write this stuff on D5 and Win98. You can decide whether to save your data on a "per machine" basis (all users of your program on that machine share the same data) or a "per user" basis (each user of your program has his/her own version of data). That's part of what that first link refers to. See also http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480150.aspx, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905330.aspx, and http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=BA73B169-A648-49AF- BC5E-A2EEBB74C16B <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=BA73B169-A648-49AF -BC5E-A2EEBB74C16B&displaylang=en> &displaylang=en for Microsoft's description on where things should go. From: advanced_delphi@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marie F Vihonsky Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:35 PM To: Advance Delphi Subject: [advanced_delphi] Re-Writing for Vista Hi All, I have just gotten the first glitches with Vista from users and it involves the logic for writing to the databases and indexs. I'm still of the old DOS mindset and a self-taught programmer. I have all my files located under the main folder where the program is installed and using Inno-Setup, I have the user install to: c:\program files\myprogram Using Delphi 5, I can determine if the user has installed the program somewhere else by determining where the EXE is located using this code: exepath:=ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName); datapath := exepath + 'data\'; if not DirectoryExists(datapath) then if not CreateDir(datapath) then begin raise Exception.Create('Cannot create '+ datapath); exit; end; mdxpath := exepath + 'indexs\'; if not DirectoryExists(mdxpath) then if not CreateDir(mdxpath) then begin raise Exception.Create('Cannot create '+ mdxpath); exit; end; Under Vista, I understand that this is a NO-NO since it requires write permission from the Administer. Now my Users are all individual HOME users, who are the Admins and don't know how to set-up their pc's to run the program they way it did under all previous versions of Windows. I'm at a loss, since I don't have a PC with Vista. Soon to be rectified before I go nuts trying to answer questions from my users! Meanwhile, how should I re-write my programs? Where can I write from the program so that the user doesn't need Admin privileges and how do I determine the folder name?
