A quick search on Google fetches interesting links on the subject :
http://www.google.com/search?q=Win32+API+Help+file&btnG=Google+Search <http://www.google.com/search?q=Win32+API+Help+file&btnG=Google+Search> Have a look at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winprog/win prog/functions_by_category.asp <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winprog/wi nprog/functions_by_category.asp> http://www.friends-of-fpc.org/tools/api/ <http://www.friends-of-fpc.org/tools/api/> http://www.sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Misc/perl-5.6.1/lib/Win32.html <http://www.sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Misc/perl-5.6.1/lib/Win32.html > Cheers. _____________________________________________ Bruno Bellenger Sr. Network/Systems Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Andre Warnier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:12 AM To: Bellenger, Bruno (Paris) Subject: RE: How to determine Windows Temp Folder? Ok, I bow to the master. From MS Knowledge Base : quote GetTempPath The GetTempPath API function allows you to determine the path location of a system's temporary folder. It takes two parameters: the length of a fixed- length or pre-initialized string that will contain the path name, and the string itself. You must use either a fixed-length string, or a string initialized to a length that you believe will be long enough to contain the path information. This is to guarantee that Visual Basic allocates enough buffer space for Windows to return the information. GetTempPath returns the length of the path name measured in bytes, or 0 if an error occurs. If the return value is greater than the buffer size you specified, then no path information was written to the string. The declaration for GetTempPath is provided in the sample below. GetTempFileName The GetTempFileName API function is used to create a fully-qualified temporary file name at a given location. The function takes four parameters: the string containing the path for the file, a string containing a prefix used to start the unique file name, a unique number to construct the temp name, and, finally, a fixed-length or pre-initialized string used to return the fully qualified file name. Both the path and prefix strings are required and cannot be empty. The unique number can be 0 (NULL), in which case GetTempFileName creates a unique number based on the current system time. GetTempFileName returns the unique number used to create the file name, or returns 0 if an error occurs. unquote I hope this all helps the original requester... By the way, I used to have a Win32 API Help file, from an old version of the Borland C compiler. I seem to have lost it somewhere. Do you know if there exists something similar, up-to-date, free, and easy to use available nowadays from somewhere ? Thanks ============================================= Message text written by "Bellenger, Bruno \(Paris\)" > http://opensource.activestate.com/authors/jandubois/Perl/TPC3/fun.html <http://opensource.activestate.com/authors/jandubois/Perl/TPC3/fun.html> also has this slightly improved version from Jan Dubois : use strict; use Win32::API; my $GetTempPath = new Win32::API "kernel32", "GetTempPath", [qw(N P)], 'N'; my $path = ' ' x 256; my $len = $GetTempPath->Call(length $path, $path); if ($len == 0) { print "GetTempPath() failed: $^E\n"; } elsif ($len > length $path) { print "Buffer too small; we need $len bytes\n"; } else { $path = substr($path,0,$len); print "Temp path is $path\n"; } _____________________________________________ Bruno Bellenger< André Warnier EIS LP [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
