OpenEuphoria

Re: Getting application startup directory

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> May 28, 2005
• 452 views

akusaya wrote:
> 
> I was having the same problem as Al Getz, who made the
> "GetStartupDirectory" contribution, which is how to get the location
> of the program we created.
> 
> For example, my program which located at c:\xyz\prog.exw
> or c:\xyz\prog.exe must know that the application directory is
> c:\xyz.
> 
> I was using the same method as Al Getz, that is using
> command_line()[2].
> 
> But after some testing,
> * c:\otherdir> exw c:\xyz\prog.exw -- success
> 
> * c:\otherdir> set path=%path%;c:\xyz
>   c:\otherdir> exw prog.exw  -- success
> 
> * c:\xyz> prog.exe -- success
> 
> * c:\otherdir> c:\xyz\prog.exe -- success
> 
> * c:\xyz> exw prog.exw -- fail! since command_line()[2] = "prog.exw",
>                        -- not "c:\xyz\prog.exw"
> 
> 
> My question is, how to get application directory *reliably*?
> 
> Is there a win32 API or something else to get it?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 

Hi there,


That's funny, i couldnt get it to fail on my system...
What op sys are you running and what steps did you do to get
it to fail?


Take care,
Al

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