[Scummvm-devel] Default paths in Windows port

[Travis Howell]

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Norbert Lange wrote:
> I would like to see if atleast some of the path issues that apparently  
> occur in Windows (http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=7628) would be  
> fixed. Should default to the same directory the config-file gets generated.

There is no set default location for where saved games are stored, under 
Windows. The Application Data area is only meant for configuration
files, and My Documents area is only meant for user created data.

My suggestion would be to prompt for the default save path, when ScummVM 
is first started, on ScummVM ports without default save path.

Norbert Lange wrote:
> And related to that the code to determine the place for the config file is  
> a bit messy aswell. There are functions that work with practically any  
> 32-bit Windows out there (excluding only Win95/WinNT without IE4+).

We support ScummVM as far back as Windows 95 (without Internet Explorer) 
and Windows NT4, which is why the code for the default config file 
location is more complicated.

Norbert Lange wrote:
> Downside ofcourse would be that old config-files have to be moved on some  
> Windows Versions (I guess only Win9x), and some really dead Versions  
> wouldnt run with complaining about a missing "shell32.dll" - and this  
> could be fixed by installing IE4 or newer.
> Optionally we could do a fallback by checking for shell32.dll but I dont  
> think its worth it

No, breaking support for the oldest supported Windows versions isn't a 
good idea, unless there is an extremely good reason.