App.Path & Temp Directory [RESOLVED]

[TheVader]

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.

[Lightning]

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

[robbedaya]

This returns true on my computer:

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

while this returns False

MsgBox App.Path = Environ("temp")

[TheVader]

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...

[TheVader]

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