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[GD-Windows] Program directory

[<cas...@ya...>]

Hi,
I would like to know how to retrieve the path where the program being
executed is. Usually it's the current working directory, that you can get
with getcwd, but in some cases that's not true. For example, when the
program is in the path or when you simply do: folder\program.exe
Is there any safe way of doing this?
I could save the name of the directory during installation or something like
that, but actually my program doesn't have any installation, so I would
prefer another option.


Ignacio Castaño
cas...@ya...


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Re: [GD-Windows] Program directory

[Javier A. <ja...@py...>]

Ignacio Castaño wrote:

> I would like to know how to retrieve the path where the program being
> executed is.

TCHAR szExeFilename[300];
::GetModuleFileName(NULL, szExeFilename,
sizeof(szExeFilename)/sizeof(szExeFilename[0]));

Javier Arevalo
Pyro Studios

Re: [GD-Windows] Program directory

[<cas...@ya...>]

Javier Arevalo wrote:
> > I would like to know how to retrieve the path where the program being
> > executed is.
>
> TCHAR szExeFilename[300];
> ::GetModuleFileName(NULL, szExeFilename,
> sizeof(szExeFilename)/sizeof(szExeFilename[0]));

That works fine, thanks!
BTW, I once had problems with those hardcoded string names when one client
installed my application under a very long file path...


Ignacio Castaño
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Re: [GD-Windows] Program directory

[Benedict W. <bwa...@bt...>]

You wrote:

>Hi,
>I would like to know how to retrieve the path where the program being
>executed is. Usually it's the current working directory, that you can =
get
>with getcwd, but in some cases that's not true. For example, when the
>program is in the path or when you simply do: folder\program.exe
>Is there any safe way of doing this?
>I could save the name of the directory during installation or something =
like
>that, but actually my program doesn't have any installation, so I would
>prefer another option.

I believe you want something like this:

char directory[255]=3D"";
GetModuleFileName( GetModuleHandle(NULL) ,directory,sizeof(directory));

This will return the exe name and path.

Benedict

RE: [GD-Windows] Program directory

[Jon W. <hp...@mi...>]

You could get the path of the main module (instance). Typically,
just calling
  TCHAR path[ 256 ];
  GetModuleFileName( 0, path, 256 );

Cheers,

			/ h+

> -----Original Message-----
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> Ignacio Castaño
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>
>
> Hi,
> I would like to know how to retrieve the path where the program being
> executed is. Usually it's the current working directory, that you can get
> with getcwd, but in some cases that's not true. For example, when the
> program is in the path or when you simply do: folder\program.exe
> Is there any safe way of doing this?
> I could save the name of the directory during installation or
> something like
> that, but actually my program doesn't have any installation, so I would
> prefer another option.
>
>
> Ignacio Castaño
> cas...@ya...
>
>
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