=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re: Re: CoGetClassObject and SHQueryValueEx A/W/?=AW fixxes

[juergen.schmied at debitel.net]

> I chose SHGetRegPathW from shlwapi, because that seemed to be the best 
> matching function for getting the registry string. I did not call a *AW 
> function directly. I fixed the SHQueryValueExW to convert the incoming 
> strings to ascii, _because_ the SHQueryValueExAW function had a bug in 
> handling ExpandEnviromentStringsA (always failed) and was ascii-only (it 
> doesn't seem to handle unicode at all). That was also the part i was not 
> completely happy about. I must say i'm not to happy about including 
> shlwapi either, but i think it is better than reinventing the wheel.
I'm looking into the SHReg* functions at the moment and do a little cleanup i allready found some more glitches.

> What would you suggest i do? Move SHGetRegPath into a libwine and make a 
> dependency from shlwapi and compobj(ole32) to that library? reimplement 
> SHGetRegPathW and SHQueryValueExW in place in compobj.c ? Especially 
> with the lib seperation going on.. there will be more and more inter-dll 
> dependencys, must we avoid that at all cost?
No, we must avoid such dependencys and reimplement this functionality where needed.

I send a patch in a few days.

juergen