I am trying to get the local Appdata folder, and store it in a string. I seem to be doing something wrong with my variables though, since I am getting an access violation when I try to store the folderpath into a string.
Code:
PSTR buffer;
HRESULT hRes = SHGetSpecialFolderPathA(NULL, buffer, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
std::string executingPathFolder = buffer;
Let's look at MSDN
lpszPath [out]
A pointer to a null-terminated string that receives the drive and path of the specified folder. This buffer must be at least MAX_PATH characters in size.
You must be careful with WinAPI - some methods returning buffers allocates them, some like write to allocated buffer. Please look here how to constructy std::string from LPSTR How do I convert from LPCTSTR to std::string?
lpszPath must point to buffer at least MAX_PATH characters in size. but initial context of the buffer does not matter.
bufferpoint to what ?