Directory of application

[Bob H]

How do I get the directory of the .exe application? It is not necessarily the current working directory because the project file may have been opened by double-clicking? I need to get a path for other text files that are in the application directory.

[PadexArt]

Check GetModuleFileName

[saj]

Use GetCurrentDirectory API

[Philip Nicoletti]

As the first reply mentioned, use GetModuleFileName().

It is explained in the FAQ at :

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showth...hreadid=231171

[Bob H]

Thanks. GetModuleFileName works.

It is odd that when I run the application from the developer environment I get long file names and when I run it by double-clicking on the project file, I get short file names. Anyway, it works.

[ovidiucucu]

Something like this:

bool CAbcDlg::GetAppDirectory( CString& strAppDir )
{
   bool bRet        = false;
   DWORD dwSize     = _MAX_PATH + 1;
   LPTSTR pszAppDir = new TCHAR[dwSize];

   if( ::GetModuleFileName( NULL, pszAppDir, dwSize ) )
   {
      strAppDir = pszAppDir;
      int nPos = strAppDir.ReverseFind( _T('\\') );
      if( -1 != nPos )
      {
         strAppDir = strAppDir.Left( nPos );
         bRet = true;
      }
   }
   delete []pszAppDir;

   return bRet;
}