Absolute Path to users "Program Files" on Windows

[MisterIKS]

Hey everybody,

I guess there's an easy solution, but google and me together were just not able to figure it out. How can I get the full path to users Program Files, usually "C:\Program Files\"?

I tried SHGetFolderPath, but it returned a TCHAR wich produced about 200 japanese looking characters behind the program-files-path wich was actually right, but not usable it this way.

Any suggestions? Thanks,

MisterIKS

[tbscope]

Try the "PROGRAMFILES" environment variable

[MisterIKS]

That's what I read everywhere, but how can I do that with Qt? Do you mean getenv() ? How can I convert the return value to QString, thats my biggest problem using windows-functions.

[tbscope]

Try

QString programFilesPath(getenv("PROGRAMFILES"));

QString programFilesPath(getenv("PROGRAMFILES"));

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[MisterIKS]

Wow, amazing ;-) That works fine, thanks a lot!

[wysota]

How about using QDesktopServices::storageLocation() with QDesktopServices::ApplicationsLocation?

[MisterIKS]

That's acually not the C:\Program Files Directory, but yet a nice hint to a function I didn't know.
Thanks for that!