Re: [Dev-C++] How do you find a file's path?

[Abhijit S. <mu...@gm...>]

Greets, Philippe.

> Hello,
>
> I have developed a basic application using C++-Dev that creates a
> process that runs IExplorer. Unfortunately, CreateProcess will not
> launch IExplorer unless I specify the latter's complete path (e.g.,
> C:\program files\Explorer\ieexplore.exe) as second parameter value:
> CreateProcess( NULL, "C:\\Program Files\\Explorer\\Iexplore.exe", ...).
> I would like to search for IExplorer on the user's PC before creating
> the process. What is the easiest way to do that on Windows?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Philippe de Rochambeau

You'll have to do a recursive search on all available disks, or, if you want
to save time, only on the primary disk (the one with windows - use
GetWindowsDirectory() for identifying it), using FindFirstFile() and
FindNextFile().

Note that, though spawn(), exec(), system(), WinExec() etc. will work, they
are not the most efficient ways of executing external processes on Windows,
CreateProcess() is.

See my (basic) helper class:
http://mudeth.tripod.com/rsearch.htm
for reference.
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Abhijit Shylanath

mu...@gm...
http://mudeth.tripod.com/