On Friday, 2 August 2013 at 08:47:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Is it possible to test at runtime if those newer functions are
available,
use them if so, and a workaround if not?
I'm not sure. Possibly. Given that we previously had code that
checked the
version of Windows and used the A functions if it was running
on Windows 9x,
there's probably a decent chance that something similar could
be done with the
Vista vs pre-Vista time functions. I'm not sure that it would
be worth the
extra complication though. What's there works. It's just not
quite as clean as
it would be otherwise.
This actually is a rather common thing. Declare function pointers
for the newer API functions. At run time, use LoadLibrary and
GetProc to load them from the system DLLs. If GetProc can't find
the symbols, you know that this version of Windows doesn't
support them, so you fall back to the older stuff.
