How to determine the path my .EXE is in???

[Jim McLachlan]

Often users create a shortcut to run my program and for various valid reasons they will set a "start in" path of their own making. I also do not know where my program file (the .EXE file) resides. I would like to create a file in that folder but I don't know how to determine where the user installed it. Aside from registry crap, is there an environment variable or something in PB I can use to get the path that the .EXE is in? CURDIR is not what I am after.

Thanks!

[Paul Squires]

If you are using PB9 then check out the "EXE" statement in the Help file. If you want to use the WinAPI then do a search on these forums for GetModuleFileName.

[Jim McLachlan]

many thanks Paul!

[Hans-Dieter Veit]

I would like to create a file in that folder but ...

But be aware that this will cause problems if your user runs VISTA

Hans

[Michael Mattias]

Move That INI File! and Get That Ini File Name!

You can put your data files in the same folder as the INI file, or make a subfolder for data.

[Cliff Nichols]

Try this Instance Parent on post #18 I posted code that will show you where your program is running from

[Bern Ertl]

Locating Data and Configuration Files

[Klaus Schussler]

I found this code below on poffs:

FUNCTION AppFullPath() AS STRING         'get the path of this exe file
    LOCAL appFilename  AS ASCIIZ * 255
    LOCAL PathPos      AS LONG
    GetModuleFileName GetModuleHandle(""), appFilename, 255
    PathPos = INSTR(-1,appFilename,"\")   'find the LAST "\" and hack out the -1 in instr func
    FUNCTION = LEFT$(appFilename,PathPos)
END FUNCTION

Use: exe_path$ = AppFullPath

K.

[Knuth Konrad]

But be aware that this will cause problems if your user runs VISTA

This has been a problem since W2K at least, because users running under a restricted account (recommended for all non-administrative tasks) don't have rights to create files in %PROGRAM FILES%.

It was just that everybody and his dog did run their machines with an account having administrative privileges ...

[Michael Mattias]

PBCC 5+, PBWIN 9+

programpath$= EXE.PATH$

Caution until the doc improvement suggestion I sent in yesterday appears in the help file: "EXE.Path$ is returned with the trailing backslash."

(I sent in suggestion because yesterday I had to guess if it was supplied or not. I guessed wrong).