retrieve program name

[Shawn Anderson]

How can I retrieve the name (i.e. filename.exe) of a program, from within the program itself?

[José Roca]

With EXE.Name$.

[Shawn Anderson]

Sorry to be ignorant about this, but I seem to missing something. Could you be more specific? I can't find any references to exe.name$, besides references to exe and name separately.

I'm using PBCC 4.04

[Paul Dixon]

Shawn,
use the Windows API GetModuleFilename:

#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"
FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG
LOCAL FullPath AS ASCIIZ * %MAX_PATH
GetModuleFileName 0, FullPath, %MAX_PATH
PRINT "Full path:";FullPath
PRINT " EXE name:";RIGHT$(FullPath, -INSTR(-1,FullPath,"\"))
WAITKEY$
END FUNCTION

Paul.

[Paul Squires]

EXE.Name$ is new functionality in PBWin9 and PBCC5.

In order to get the executing filename and extension you would use EXE.Namex$ rather than EXE.Name$

[Scott Turchin]

And...if you think that someone changed the name of the EXE you can always use that code Michael put in the source code forum to draw a string name out of the resource file.

I updated the code JUST for retrieving a JPEG but you could modify THAT code easy enough to look for "Original filename" or something.

[Shawn Anderson]

That worked for me Paul, thanks.

exe.name$ looked like a class function so I wondered about that.

thanks everyone!