access to environment variables

[jan s.]

Hi

Does anyone know how to access dos-environment-variables in vb?

I want to check if there´s a certain ocx in the
"%windir%\system32"

Thank you

[Cakkie]

To get the system path, you can use the GetSystemDirectory API

private Declare Function GetSystemDirectory Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetSystemDirectoryA" (byval lpBuffer as string, byval nSize as Long) as Long

private Sub Form_Load()

Dim strPath as string
strPath = Space(255)

GetSystemDirectory strPath, 255

MsgBox strPath

End Sub




Tom Cannaerts
slisse@planetinternet.be

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning -- Rich Cook

[jan s.]

Hi
Thanks for your answer.
But i still got a little problem.
Using your code i´ve got "c:\winnt\system32"
in strPath. The next thing i want to do is to check if thers a mswinsck.ocx in that directory.
I tried it the following way:

dim d,x as string

x=strPath+"\mswinsck.ocx"
d=dir(x)
if(d="mswinsck.ocx")then
...
end if

This doesnt work. The problem is that
d=strPath+"\mswinsck.ocx"
doesnt work. d still only contains "c:\winnt\system32".
I guess this is because of all the spaces at the end of strPath, but i dont know how to fix that
(i already tried strPath=trim(strPath)).

Thank you

@Cakkie
PS: I´ve also send you sent you this message as a private message by mistake. Sorry for that.

[Cakkie]

I already replied to you private message :)

use & in stead of +

x = strPath & "\mswinsock.ocx"

Tom Cannaerts
slisse@planetinternet.be

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning -- Rich Cook

[jan s.]

Still doesnt work.

I can add a string in front of srtPath
but not on the end of it.
x="xxx" & strPath works
x=strPath & "xxx" doesnt

???

[Cakkie]

I reviewed my code and discovered a bug. The GetSystemDirectory function returns a null-terminated string. this is why you cannot append, cause null and something = null.
This should fix the problem. Place this line after the call to GetSystemDirectory

strPath = Left(strPath, len(Trim(strPath)) - 1)




Tom Cannaerts
slisse@planetinternet.be

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning -- Rich Cook

[John G Duffy]

Thats not really a bug. Most, if not all APIs that handle strings, Fill the space allocated for strings with nulls to avoid left over garbage in the data area for the string.

John G

[Iouri]

Try this to read DOS environment

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim Env As String
Dim x As Integer
Dim t As String

x = 1
Env = Environ(x)

Do Until Env = ""
Env = Environ(x)
Print t; Env
x = x + 1
Loop

End Sub


Iouri Boutchkine
iouri@hotsheet.com

[Iouri]

Also try this

Code: Environ("<Param>")

Returns a string, where <Param> can be any of the following:
ALLUSERSPROFILE
APPDATA
CommonProgramFiles
COMPUTERNAME
ComSpec
HOMEDRIVE
HOMEPATH
LOGONSERVER
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS
OS
Os2LibPath
Path
PATHEXT
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER
PROCESSOR_LEVEL
PROCESSOR_REVISION
ProgramFiles
SystemDrive
SystemRoot
TEMP
TMP
USERDOMAIN
USERNAME
USERPROFILE
windir

If you wish to dump all of the environment variables, this simple piece
of code will work:

For i = 1 To 26
Debug.Print Environ(i) & vbCrLf
Next i


Iouri Boutchkine
iouri@hotsheet.com

[teradyne]

How do you go about setting environment variables from VB? Does environ have a matching function to do this?


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