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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / how can i find abs path for different users ?

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evan
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Posted: 25th Aug 2003 14:19
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Making a card game which also plays any music in
the "C:\Documents and Settings\evan\My Documents\My Music"
folder.
Everything ok no my comp as i know my user name (evan)
and know the absolute path to My Music,but will not
work on other peoples comps.
Is there any way u can get the users name from windows,or another way to get to My Music without using a user name
thanks

p.s i'm using windows xp.
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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 25th Aug 2003 14:46
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It looks like you'll have to go through the registry to find it unfortunately.

You can also get the name of the user currently logged on...


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Andy Igoe
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Posted: 25th Aug 2003 15:28 Edited at: 25th Aug 2003 15:28
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When it comes to mp3 collections I think many of us file and organise our mp3's elsewhere on our computer. Personally I am just starting to rebuild my mp3 collection after a drive failure took out my last one, but to give you an idea that was a 10gb collection built up over a long time that had it's own hard disk F: with category and artist directories (with quite a lot of errors )

Perhaps a directory selection dialogue would work better?

Pneumatic Dryll
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evan
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Posted: 25th Aug 2003 18:44
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Found one way to do it.but won't work all the time :-


set dir "C:\Documents and Settings\"
find first
do
a$=get file name$()
if a$<>"." and a$<>".." and a$<>"Default User" and a$<>"All Users" and a$<>"NetworkService" and a$<>"LocalService" then exit
find next
loop

b$="C:\Documents and Settings\"+a$+"\My Documents\My Music"
print b$
wait key
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Andy Igoe
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Posted: 25th Aug 2003 21:43 Edited at: 25th Aug 2003 21:44
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Alas it will still fail for the majority of users. Primarily because the majority of users are not configured for multi-user login thus it would fail even for those who do put music into their "My Music" directory.

If I recall correctly the appropriate command to read in the My Music folder from the registry would be:



Although i'm not sure exactly how DBPro determines which HKEY it is reading, maybe IanM or one of the other clever people can answer that. We need to specify "HKEY_CURRENT_USER".

I recommend against using the My Music folder if the program is for general release for the reasons already given.

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