How to get desktop location using Win api function (VFP)

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How to get desktop location using Win api function (VFP)

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08/11/2006 08:14:02

Borislav Borissov
Microcomplex
Sofia, Bulgaria

08/11/2006 08:08:56

Sergey Berezniker
New York, United States

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Visual FoxPro

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Windows API functions

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Re: How to get desktop location using Win api function (VFP)

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01167947

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>>ows  = CREATEOBJECT([WSCRIPT.Shell])
>>WAIT WINDOW ows.SpecialFolders(0) && All users    DESKTOP
>>WAIT WINDOW ows.SpecialFolders(4) && Current user DESKTOP
>>

>
>Why use "Magic numbers" ?
>

>? ows.SpecialFolders("AllUsersDesktop")
>? ows.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
>

:-)
Because magic collection item names didn't comes into my mind when I wrote the code.
But of course I could write a DEFINE variables to make code more readable.

Against Stupidity the Gods themselves Contend in Vain - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The only thing normal about database guys is their tables.

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