[SDL] SDL_wtf (aka SDL_path) proposal

[David MacCormack]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

>
>> Actualy, I'd prefer this sort of functionality be added to something like
>> PhysFS.  The issue is complicated by the fact that there are lots of types
>> of config paths and requirements, depending on the system and the design
>> of the game config files, but this should take care of the usual case.
>
> PhysicsFS already does this.  :)
>
> And on some platforms, namely Windows, you have to really jump through some 
> serious hoops to get this information (including calling LoadLibrary() on 
> system DLLs that don't necessarily exist on Win95, etc).

Exactly.  I ran across the exact same problem when I wrote fnkdat
(http://www.maccormack.net/~djm/fnkdat).  Win95 (actually, specific 
versions of shfolder.dll) doesn't understand the concept of per-user 
configurations.  You have to load the library and query the DLL to see 
if the SHGetFolderPath() function is available, and fallback to a 
reasonable default if it does not.

Dave