App.Path & Temp Directory [RESOLVED]

Hi, I'm copying one of my apps to the Temporary directory, which I retrieve through Environ("TEMP"). The path is returned like this: C:\Docume~1\Userna~1\Temp. When I start the app from the Temp directory I want to check if it's in the right directory. Therefore I check if the App.Path is equal to the Temp path. The App.Path, however, is returned like this: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Temp. So when I compare the two, they are not equal. Is there a way to retrieve the complete Temporary path or the DOS-path of the application (the GetTempPath API doesn't work either...)?

Thanks. :)

Check for the number of files and directory's, if both match you are quite sure it is the same directory

This returns true on my computer:

VB Code:

MsgBox Dir(App.Path) = Dir(Environ("temp"))

while this returns False

VB Code:

MsgBox App.Path = Environ("temp")

Thanks, but the first code returns true even when the app.path is not equal to the temp path. :) It only gets the first file in the directory (which fails because an additional slash is required) and thus compares nothing with nothing, which returns true. ;)

Thanks anyway. I guess I'll have to take Lightning's approach, but I can't believe there's no way to get the full path... :confused:

Finally found it! There's an API GetShortPathName that can convert the App.Path to a Short Path. :) Thanks folks.