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

[Philippe de R. <phi...@ww...>]

Hello,

could someone please explain to me why the Run Dialog has no problem=20
finding IExplorer and passing switches such as -k to it, whereas=20
CreateProcess will only run IE if I specify the full path? Furthermore,=20=

why doesn't CreateProcess process switches (e.g. CreateProcess( NULL,=20
"C:\\Program Files\\Explorer\\IEXplore.exe -k", ...)?

Many thanks.

Philippe de Rochambeau



Le mardi, 21 jan 2003, =E0 20:10 Europe/Paris, Oladipo Odumosu a =E9crit =
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> Philippe,
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> some applications have been assigned to the PATH. most of them can be=20=

> run by pressing Win-R (to get to the Run dialog), and entering the=20
> name of the application exec. for expl, Internet Explorer can usually=20=

> be run by entering "iexplore" in the Run dialog.if the app you want is=20=

> in the system path, you only need to know the name of the exec.
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> as per getting the path to an executable, you might just need to=20
> manually hack that. as far as i know, the only functions similar to=20
> what you're looking for are GetWindowsDirectory() and=20
> GetSystemDirectory().
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> bye
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