OLE App.Path problem

[winterslam]

Private Sub Form_Load()
MsgBox App.Path
End
End Sub

I complied it as Project1.exe and saved it on the desktop





I embedded Project1.exe into another project and compiled it as Project2.exe on the desktop



Obviously the App.Path is no longer pointing to the desktop...




How can I force the App.Path of the embedded application to be the App.Path of the parent application?

[Hack]

By placing them both in the same folder.

[winterslam]

What do you mean?



They are both on Desktop

[Hack]

No, that is not what the msgboxs are telling me.

There are two separate file paths displayed.

App.Path refers to the folder where the compiled EXE is residing. Those message boxs indicate Project1 is in one place and Project2 is in another.

[winterslam]

Project1.exe is embedded inside Project2.exe (not linked)


And they are both on Desktop



I guess Project1 is temporarily extracted out of project2.exe and being put inside the temporary folder before being run

[Hack]

So, there is only one .EXE?

[winterslam]

Project2's code

Private Sub Form_Load()
OLE1.DoVerb
End
End Sub

[winterslam]

So, there is only one .EXE?

There are 2 EXEs, which are independent from each other.

Project1.exe runs as a normal application and msgbox app.path
Project2.exe runs as an embedded application and msgbox app.path

[Hack]

I guess Project1 is temporarily extracted out of project2.exe and being put inside the temporary folder before being run

And this is why they have difference App.Paths

I don't know how you are "extracting" project1, but however it is being done needs to be modifed to do the extraction in the App.Path of Project2

[winterslam]

And this is why they have difference App.Paths

I don't know how you are "extracting" project1, but however it is being done needs to be modifed to do the extraction in the App.Path of Project2

Thanks..
How can I "extract" project1 in the same path as project2?


I use OLE1.DoVerb to run the embedded application. Are there any parameters to control the path?

[Hack]

I don't know. In all my years of VB, I've never use the OLE object.

Try this experiment though. In standard of using built in windows OS folders, make a new data folder and put your Project2 in there and run it. I would be curious to see where it extracted Project1 to from there.