1. Luis Pesaressi
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Thursday, 12 September 2024 04:19 AM UTC

Hello everyone,

do you know how I can get the path of the Windows user's documents directory, regardless of the language configured in the Operating System (Window)?

 

Thanks

 

Luis

René Ullrich Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 12 September 2024 05:25 AM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 1

You can use the windows api function SHGetFolderPathW with folder code (csidl) 5.

In PFCs platform service you can find the function of_GetKnownFolderPath as a codes example how to use the function.

https://github.com/OpenSourcePFCLibraries/2022/blob/main/ws_objects/pfcapsrv/pfcapsrv.pbl.src/pfc_n_cst_platformunicode.sru

 

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mike S Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 12 September 2024 11:49 AM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 2

Get the users' directory first with GetContextKeywords: 

ls_envkey = "%userprofile%"

or

ls_envkey = "%HOMEPATH%"

 

ContextKeyword icntext_keyword

icntext_keyword.GetContextKeywords(ls_envkey, ls_values[])

then append the subdirectory you want to use:


ls_values[1] + "\Documents"

 which is exactly what you don't want to do since it is locale dependent. 

It is weird that windows has all of these %values% but not one for documents.  

 

 windows - Is There A System Defined Environment Variable For Documents Directory? - Stack Overflow

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