Thread: What is this code doing?

  1. #1
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    What is this code doing?

    Code:
    bool Trade::ReadConfiguration()
    {
    	bool bGotConfigValues = true;
    	char sIniPath[255];
    	GetCurrentDirectory( sizeof(sIniPath), sIniPath );
    	sprintf( sIniPath,"%s\\..\\..\\%s.ini",sIniPath, INI_FILE_BASE); 
    
    	GetPrivateProfileString( _T(INI_FILE_SECTION), _T("UserName"), _T(""), m_szUserName, sizeof(m_szUserName), sIniPath );
    	GetPrivateProfileString( _T(INI_FILE_SECTION), _T("Password"), _T(""), m_szPassword, sizeof(m_szPassword), sIniPath );
    	GetPrivateProfileString( _T(INI_FILE_SECTION), _T("Part"), _T(""), m_szPart, sizeof(m_szPart), sIniPath );
    	GetPrivateProfileString( _T(INI_FILE_SECTION), _T("Server"), _T(""), m_szConnection, sizeof(m_szConnection), sIniPath );

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    it reads an ini file. but its not correctly coded

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    Not coded correctly... it's from an api template?

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    Code:
    	bool bGotConfigValues = true;
    	char sIniPath[255];
    	GetCurrentDirectory( sizeof(sIniPath), sIniPath );
    	sprintf( sIniPath,"%s\\..\\..\\%s.ini",sIniPath, INI_FILE_BASE);
    GetCurrentDirectory might not return the real directory path, its not constant. try to use GetModuleFileName(NULL, sIniPath); instead. it retrieves the whole path of the exe including filename, but you can strip the filename off

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    So it's reading from UserConfig.ini file 3 directories up.

    In my project implementation I’m including the ini file with all the source code so 1 directory up from the build. Would something like this work:
    Code:
    sprintf( sIniPath,"%s..\\%s.ini",sIniPath, INI_FILE_BASE);
    I’ll work on making things better after I just get this to work.

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