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From: CA VO on 15 Feb 2010 09:34 What is the best way to find out from what directory did the application start from, ie the installation directory? I have some additional parameters in that directory I need to read later in the application. Kari
From: Lars Broberg on 15 Feb 2010 09:50 We use: _DLL FUNC GetModuleFileName(hModule AS PTR,lpFilename AS PSZ, nSize AS DWORD); AS DWORD PASCAL:KERNEL32.GetModuleFileNameA to check where we started. You get the fully qualified file name for your program, from this you can extract the path. Maybe there is an easier way, this is something we used for a long time... ---- Lars Broberg Elbe-Data AB lars at elbe-data dot se CA VO wrote: > What is the best way to find out from what directory did the > application start from, ie the installation directory? > I have some additional parameters in that directory I need to read > later in the application. > > Kari
From: Johan Nel on 15 Feb 2010 10:27 Hi Kari, I have the following in all my programs: FUNCTION GetProgramFS() AS FileSpec RETURN FileSpec{GetProgramName()} // Convert it to a FileSpec object FUNCTION GetProgramName() AS STRING LOCAL cExeName AS STRING LOCAL nLen AS WORD // This will use the Windows API call "GetModuleFileName" // to get the currently running task's name and path. // Example: "C:\CAVO\USING_VO.EXE" cExeName := Space(128) // Pre-assign a buffer for Windows API call nLen := GetModuleFileName(_GetInst(), PSZ(cExeName), 128) // Call Windows IF nLen > 0 cExeName := Left(cExeName,nLen) // Trim to given size ELSE cExeName := "" // Error ENDIF RETURN cExeName HTH, Johan Nel Pretoria, South Africa. CA VO wrote: > What is the best way to find out from what directory did the > application start from, ie the installation directory? > I have some additional parameters in that directory I need to read > later in the application. > > Kari
From: John Martens on 15 Feb 2010 10:47 If you are also looking for the parameter that were passed while starting the app look also at: _GetCmdLine() John Op 15-2-2010 15:34, CA VO schreef: > What is the best way to find out from what directory did the > application start from, ie the installation directory? > I have some additional parameters in that directory I need to read > later in the application. > > Kari
From: Geoff Schaller on 15 Feb 2010 16:50
WorkDir() "CA VO" <kari.hyvonen(a)dbcoy.com> wrote in message news:94b4dd3f-6b15-40e2-ab5f-2c6f3a5ed21e(a)d27g2000yqf.googlegroups.com: > What is the best way to find out from what directory did the > application start from, ie the installation directory? > I have some additional parameters in that directory I need to read > later in the application. > > Kari |