Qt4: How to get the Common Application Data folder path?

[Ankitha Varsha]

Neat
Thanks a lot

[elcuco]

be warned that those directories might have different names, depending on the windows locale.

Check MSDN for the correct function to use. On linux, just put stuff on the user's home directory, no real standard here.

[Lesiok]

On Windows all this information You can read from system register from key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders. In example to read location of All User Desktop :

QSettings register("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders", QSettings::NativeFormat);
QString allUserDesktop( register.value("Common Desktop").toString());

QSettings register("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders", QSettings::NativeFormat);
QString allUserDesktop( register.value("Common Desktop").toString());

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[Ankitha Varsha]

This was very useful.
Thank you so much.