hmmm and not to mention that a lot of devs are still using old
codebases or at least a few of them are publically using them.
The good thing is that you can run a 32 bit os which does mean even
for win8 users that we still can go 32 bit if we want but this may be
the last one.
For those on win7 we have about another decade, roughly 8 years
before you need to decide but thats it, in 8 years we need to be
fully away from old code period!
And if not there will be issues.
they are talking about moving the supports right off for every old
code in win9 and win8 may already have this this may be the last
version we can do things to.
At 09:05 a.m. 13/09/2012 -0400, you wrote:
That is because xp don't have the folder structure that vista or
win7 64bit ops do.
With just about everyone switching to 64 bit ops with new computers.
Your games and VB6 coding is being left behind just like dos. Tried
to tell you this many times for years, but landed on deff ears!
At 05:10 AM 9/13/2012, you wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I'm sorry, but neither of my Windows XP computers have a c:\Users
folder, and I doubt that VB6 has a way of finding that since as you
said VB6 was out for like Windows 98. The only folder on my
computers that seem to know my name is C:\Documents and Settings\Jim kitchen
BFN
----- Original Message -----
Hi Jim,
No. With Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 every user gets their own
personal application data folder. This is a special directory where
programs are suppose to save their files to. On XP it would let you
get away with writing files to c:\Program Files\Kitchensinc but as of
Vista and later that isn't really recommended and causes technical
issues with Microsoft User Account Control and other newer security
software. Instead on Windows 7 the files would go in a directory like
c:\Users\Thomas\App Data\Roaming\Kitchens Inc
assuming your user name is Thomas. If it is something like Jim, for
example, and then the files would go in
c:\Users\Jim\App Data\Roaming\Kitchens Inc.
There are ways to have your programs automatically discover the user's
local App Data directory so its not very complicated. Just an extra
step or two when writing and saving files.
Unfortunately, its been about 10 years since I touched VB 6 so am not
sure of the correct functions to access the user's local App Data
directory off hand. I do know that in VB .NET 2010 its a fairly
simple and straight forward process, and it works like a charm with
User Account Control.
Cheers!
Jim
Users: Keep them dry and don't feed them after midnight.
j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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