GetSpecialFolder can set variable to garbage

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Friedrich,

If you run the attached script on 9x the issue will be immediately apparent.
Here's what's happening.

Not taking specific shell versions into account myself (my bad), I learned
from a customer today that SB's GetSpecialFolder() was returning garbage for
CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA on 9x. CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA won't exist there, but the
trashed string threw me.

GetSpecialFolder() does not set %_SB_ERRORCODE% on failure, or success. So
I'm wondering if that is intentional, or an oversight.

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Best regards,

Mark

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Mark,

Up to now, this function did not return any error code. I have changed this
now.

- If the function succeeds, the %_SB_ERRORCODE% return value is nonzero.
- If the function fails, the return value is zero.

To use CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA (0x0023), the target machine requires version
5.0 of the Shell or common controls dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). Version
5.0 of Shlwapi.dll is distributed with Internet Explorer 5.

Thanks,
Friedrich

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Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
1.954.252.3910

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Mark,

Documentation updated. It now outlines the different "Shell" DLL versions
and how they were distributed.

Friedrich

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Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
1.954.252.3910

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>Mark,
>
>Up to now, this function did not return any error code. I have changed this
>now.
>
>- If the function succeeds, the % SB ERRORCODE% return value is nonzero.
>- If the function fails, the return value is zero.

Thank you.

>To use CSIDL COMMON APPDATA (0x0023), the target machine requires version
>5.0 of the Shell or common controls dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). Version
>5.0 of Shlwapi.dll is distributed with Internet Explorer 5.

Yep, I wasn't checking. Interesting thing is that the customer's box had IE
6.0.2800.1106, and the box I tested on had a 6.x version. I'm looking forward
to getting away from 9x altogether.

I've used HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version
Vector in the past. Have you got a built-in gadget for the shell, or IE,
version?

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Best regards,

Mark

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Mark,

I have added a new "Get System Information" function to receive the Internet
Explorer version number now.

Thanks,
Friedrich

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Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
1.954.252.3910

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>I have added a new "Get System Information" function to receive the Internet
>Explorer version number now.

Thank you, Friedrich.

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Best regards,

Mark