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ALTAP Roadmap (updated 02/06/2006)
-- Structured and unlimited Hot Paths.

I hope we can use system vars like %USERPROFILE%

e.g. to have the following Hot Paths
MyDesktop ---- %Userprofile%\Desktop
AppsProfile ---- %APPDATA%
Drivers --------- %WinDir%\System32\Drivers


so our Hot Paths works on all machines.

(I have tryed to use $[%UserProfile%] and $[USERPROFILE] but no luck)



find me: %HomeDrive% %ProgramFiles% %Temp% sys system variable variables

Stefan wrote:I hope we can use system vars like %USERPROFILE% e.g. to have the following Hot Paths [...]

Yes, please! Great idea (nearly obvious....)

Environment variables was great, but only half a solution. Many folders canot reliably be specified by using environment variables, thus we need CSIDL constants too. See Disconnect network drive in the Problems and Troubleshooting forum for an example.

Yes, you mean like

Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
or
Scanners and camera's.{E211B736-43FD-11D1-9EFB-0000F8757FCD}

A list of this special folder CLSIDs can be found
here http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/ ... lders2.htm
and here http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/icn_reg.html

Or in SS menu "Commands | Open Folders >"

"Special Folders" can not be open in "Hot Paths" but in "User Menu":

1 - make a new sub folder, e.g. ...\Programs\Sala2.5b11\SpecFolders
2 - make there a new sub folder called   'Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}'
(see last post for links to a list of special folders)

3 - config your user menu and point to this newest folder
'...\Programs\Sala2.5b11\SpecFolders\Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}'
Be sure to see all files *.*


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You can do the same in "Hot Paths".... but Salamander redirect NOT to the special folder
but opens only the folder you created with the "special folder name"

But You can still right click your "special folder named"-folders in Salamander and "Explorer" them to browse the special folders.
(so maybe Altap can improve this ?)

Thank you, AbteriX, for your suggestion.

I did not mean CLSIDs, but, as I wrote it, CSIDLs. These are used in Windows API to access special shell folders. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... /csidl.asp

With these you can access the system's current notion of e.g. the My Documents folder, which refuses to do it's thing using the method AbteriX suggested.

Oh " CSIDLs", sorry never heard about
Thanks for clarifying SvA.

$(WinDir), $(SysDir), $(SalDir), $[EnvironmentVariable] variables will be supported in Hot Paths from AS 2.52.
Thank you for your ideas!