Getting the Path a program was launched from

I've been able to get the hwnd for the active window. I have also been able to get what the exe is of the program. Both of these I found out how to do from these forums.

One thing I haven't found is if it is possible to find the path a program was launched from if you have the hwnd?

Thanks for any help, and soz in advance if this has been answered before, but I couldn't fin dit

If you used something like GetWindowThreadProcessID() to get the PID of the process that made the window, and then get info about the exe that way, the path should be along with the exe name itself. I answered a question a while back for someone about this, and one of the things that eventually came out of it was the full path and name of the exe that the process is running, so you may want to look at it.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=198867 (go about halfway down and take a look at GetEXEName())

If that isn't the path you're talking about, just ignore these babblings. I think you can get the actual command line an exe was launched with in some manner though, assuming the path in question was a parameter. If it was from the "Launch in:" part of a shortcut's properties, I'm not sure how to get that, or even if you can.

Thanks for the reply, one of my mates got it going.

This is the code from the module he made if anyone is interested

Code:

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Public Const TH32CS_SNAPMODULE As Long = 8&
Public Const MAX_PATH As Long = 260

Public Type MODULEENTRY32
    dwSize As Long
    th32ModuleID As Long
    th32ProcessID As Long
    GlblcntUsage As Long
    ProccntUsage As Long
    modBaseAddr As Long
    modBaseSize As Long
    hModule As Long
    szModule As String * 256
    szExePath As String * 260
End Type

Public Declare Function GetWindowThreadProcessId Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hWnd As Long, lpdwProcessId As Long) As Long

Public Declare Function CreateToolhelpSnapshot Lib "kernel32" _
Alias "CreateToolhelp32Snapshot" (ByVal lFlgas As Long, ByVal _
lProcessID As Long) As Long

Public Declare Function Module32First Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hSnapshot As _
Long, lppe As Any) As Long

Public Declare Sub CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hPass As Long)

Public Function GetExeFromHandle(hWnd As Long) As String
    Dim threadID As Long, processID As Long, hSnapshot As Long
    Dim uProcess As MODULEENTRY32, rProcessFound As Long
    Dim i As Integer, szExename As String
    szExename = ""
   
    ' Get ID for window thread
    threadID = GetWindowThreadProcessId(hWnd, processID)
    ' Check if valid
    If threadID = 0 Or processID = 0 Then Exit Function
    ' Create snapshot of current processes
    hSnapshot = CreateToolhelpSnapshot(TH32CS_SNAPMODULE, processID)
    ' Check if snapshot is valid
    If hSnapshot = -1 Then Exit Function
    'Initialize uProcess with correct size
    uProcess.dwSize = Len(uProcess)
   
    'Start looping through processes
    rProcessFound = Module32First(hSnapshot, uProcess)
   
    If rProcessFound Then
            i = InStr(1, uProcess.szExePath, Chr(0))
            If i > 0 Then szExename = Left$(uProcess.szExePath, i - 1)
    End If
   
    Call CloseHandle(hSnapshot)
    GetExeFromHandle = szExename
End Function

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good code - using :)