OpenEuphoria

RE: Euphoria's current_dir() bug

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 20, 2001
• 407 views

Hi Rob,


Robert Craig wrote:
> Al Getz writes:
> 
> > Double clicking the exw or bindw'd exe filename,
> > current_dir() returns the expected directory name.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Dragging a filename onto a bound exe (bindw)
> > causes the current_dir() name to always be c:\.
> 
> In my case it was c:\windows,
> but it's not a bug in current_dir().
> 
> The current directory _really was_ c:\windows.
> I confirmed this by having the Euphoria program
> successfully open a file located in c:\windows
> without specifying any directory path.
> 
> This is some quirk of drag&drop in Windows.
> It's not a problem with current_dir().
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
> 
> 
> 

I knew windows had some kind of problem like this but never
got to look into it to find out what exactly was happening.

Thanks for looking into it.
--Al