C++ App.path

[JasonLpz]

OK i learned how to get the app.path in vb and the the whole file path and name from c++ consol but i can i get it from Win32 c++

[made_of_asp]

GetCurrentDirectory() should take care of it.

Then you can manage the directory with PathCombine().

[Zaei]

Originally posted by made_of_asp
GetCurrentDirectory() should take care of it.

Then you can manage the directory with PathCombine().

You cant guarentee that the current directory is the same as the application path. I believe that MSVC will change the current directory to the one the executable resides in when in Debug/Run mode, however, in the real world, dont bet on it.

Use GetModuleFilename(), and trim it backwards until you hit a '\\' character.

Z.

[JasonLpz]

thanks alot . i would have thought it would have been complicate dbut you made it simple lol thanks again

[made_of_asp]

TRUE. Current Directory can change, but I always use it anyway. You would have to modify your shortucts ""Working Directory" function.

#include <shlwapi.h>

void Mod()
{
	CHAR szModule[2048];

	GetModuleFileName(GetModuleHandle(NULL), szModule, 2048);
::PathRemoveFileSpec(szModule);
	MessageBox(NULL, szModule, "AAA", MB_OK);
}

[CornedBee]

MSVC++ sets the working directory in debug runs to the project main directory, which is not where the exe resides in.

Unlike VC# btw...

[Zaei]

Originally posted by CornedBee
MSVC++ sets the working directory in debug runs to the project main directory, which is not where the exe resides in.

Unlike VC# btw...

It is in my projects

Z.

[CornedBee]

Well...