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Good point. Thanks, DWK.

Thanks, Mats

I'm using a library that defines:


struct ip_addr {
u32_t addr;
};


and which has functions that use pointers to these structures - e.g.

Sounds like it might be better for native apps.
My app is actually Java with a little platform-specific code to handle these sort of issues. It turns out that I can use existing code to get access...

Thank you Poccil and Hammer! Based on the MSDN article and the sample code, I was able to get this to work. The path is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell...

Thanks Hammer, but isn't that only for temporary files? I'm looking for a place to store application data (some of which are largish files that persist between launches).

What registry entry should be used? HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment\APPDATA? Is it consistent over all Win32 platforms?

Thanks, Nick

Thanks. I use the registry to store preferences data, but these files are several 100k. I'm currently creating a directory in the user's home directory and putting them in it. I guess that's OK...

My app needs to create a directory to store some files it uses. Is there a standard place to do this under Win32? (I mostly program Mac OS X where the answer to this question is...