Re: PathCompactPath() - no Shlwapi.h

From:
"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 2 Aug 2007 06:54:05 -0700
Message-ID:
<#sPXayQ1HHA.5360@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
OTOH, shlwapi is very poorly designed. None of those Path* functions have
BufferSize argument. I would be ashamed if it were my API.

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com> wrote in message
news:38AD83C3-A51C-437E-8B84-F597E2F6FA43@microsoft.com...

I use those functions almost religiously (in every program) and I've never
distributed that DLL. I think it is on every version of Windows since Win
98 and all systems that have at least IE 4.01 (or something like that). It
always just seems to be there. It might be safer to redistrube the DLL,
but there are so many controls that I use that count on the newer version
of IE common controls that I just say the user needs at least IE 4.01
installed and leave it at that.

Tom

"flect" <flect@aol.com> wrote in message
news:e7YyrAJ1HHA.4816@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Tom Serface wrote:

If you are just displaying it, you could use a static control with the
SS_PATHELLIPSIS style set

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9h0ay857(VS.80).aspx

However, why don't you want to use the PathCompactPath() function.
Shlwapi.dll is almost always available these days and the functions are
easy to use.

Tom

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