FSX Flightplan folder

[bcs112]

Hi Pete,

Can I retrieve the FSX flightplan folder path via FSUIPC (e.g.My documents\Flight Simulator X Files) ? I now get the path to the My documents folder from the registry and add "Flight Simulator X files") but then I may miss the localisation differences...

Thanks,

Björn

[hsors]

Hi Björn,

Indeed FSUIPC will not help you retrieving the "My documents" path. Rather than reading the registry, I will suggest you use the SHGetSpecialFolderLocation API with the adequate idl structure (&H5 for folder item). This is a more general approach that will also work on Vista. You will then have to append the "Flight Simulator Files" (FS9) or "Flight Simulator X Files" subfolder to complete the work

Hervé

[bcs112]

Hi Hervé,

That is in fact exactly what I am doing now but... then I learned that in the German version of FS9 the folder was called "Flight Simulator - dateien" ! Possibly FSX doesn't use these localised folder names anymore but to be sure it would be much better if I could retrieve the folder name directly.

Kind regards,

Björn

[hsors]

Hi Björn,

You're right. My mistake is that I own and use an English FS9 version. In the French FS9 version, this subfolder is named "Fichiers Flight Simulator". Now, I didn't find a single registry key with it neither I could find a reference to this folder in the FS9.cfg file (except as part of the [uSERINTERFACE] Situation= item). May be someone else or Pete, could tell us if there is a way to retrieve the proper localized name of this subfolder. As regard FSX, the same could be true. Again I only own an English version.

Regards

Hervé

[Edit]: here is the answer and the way to proceed by Pete : http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/archiv-4243.html

[Pete Dowson]

Indeed FSUIPC will not help you retrieving the "My documents" path. Rather than reading the registry, I will suggest you use the SHGetSpecialFolderLocation API with the adequate idl structure (&H5 for folder item). This is a more general approach that will also work on Vista. You will then have to append the "Flight Simulator Files" (FS9) or "Flight Simulator X Files" subfolder to complete the work

Actually, FSUIPC has long provided the full path to "where FS will save flights", which is the default PLANs folder too -- see offset 1000. The path is provided in UNC format when appropriate, so that it can be used from WideFS client PCs too.

Regards

Pete