Thread: dealing with files.....

ok, stripped down, this is what i use to save a player's game in my RPG:

Code:

saveinfo = fopen(savename, "w+");
if (saveinfo == NULL) {
      cout << "ERROR\n";         	//if it can't save game produce 
                                                //an error
}
else {			//write all records to whatever they 
                                                //named the file
      for (a=0;a<276;a++) { fprintf(saveinfo, "%i\n", record[a]); }
      fclose(saveinfo);
}
if (quicksave==0 && saveinfo!=NULL) {
      cout << "\nGame saved successfully.\n";
      system("Pause");
}

savename is the variable for the name of the game that the player enters to save the game as. record[a] is all the different variables that are saved in the file.
now, my question is this: i want to save all the games in a subdirectory of where the game is saved, say in a subdir called "saves". how would i do this if i dont know the directory that the game itself will be in? because it wont always be in c:/game/...i hope that makes sense. if anyone could give me some pointers i would appreciate it. thanks!

Here's a couple of ways

1. Write an install program which prompts the user to enter the name of the dir where to install the game. This install program also generates a game.cfg containing the path to the saves (which you then read from within the game proper)

2. use argv[0]

Code:

int main ( int argc, char *argv[] ) {
    printf("%s\n", argv[0] );
    return 0;
}

Some C runtime libs provide you with the full pathname of the executable.

thanks for the tips, ill look into em. never thought about the install thing...thanks again