Getting the path file of your program?

[RedZone]

If I wanted to get the full path of my running program is there a C++ equivalent to App.Path or does this have to be done in a long and tedious process?

[mikahell]

Luckily, the answer to this is quite, too easy! It should work fine with what you are looking for, it's a special "#define" that will tell you the whole path to your application... Then you just have to place that piece of code where you need it:

__FILE__

There are probably plenty of those special #defines, though the other one I know are these, and what they do is enough relevent:

__LINE__
__DATE__
__TIME__

[Dave_Sinkula]

Luckily, the answer to this is quite, too easy! It should work fine with what you are looking for, it's a special "#define" that will tell you the whole path to your application... Then you just have to place that piece of code where you need it:

__FILE__

That would be the source file, not the name of the executable.

RedZone: What OS?

[Desolation]

You are definitely wrong. The __FILE__ macro returns the path of the current file (.h, .hpp, .c, .cpp, .cxx ....) and not the path of the current process:

HANDLE ThisProcess = GetCurrentProcess();
TCHAR FilePath[MAX_PATH + 1] = {0};
GetFinalPathNameByHandle(ThisProcess, FilePath, MAX_PATH, 0);

[RedZone]

That would be the source file, not the name of the executable.

RedZone: What OS?

Windows XP

HANDLE ThisProcess = GetCurrentProcess();
TCHAR FilePath[MAX_PATH + 1] = {0};
GetFinalPathNameByHandle(ThisProcess, FilePath, MAX_PATH, 0);

This is helpful but MSDN tells me that I need Vista.

[Wraithan]

You have to search the MSDN a bit, I have found some of their stuff is for Win CE, then when i search and click again on a function, I get Win XP

[toonlover]

Really, It's not that hard....It comes all in one function:

DWORD GetModuleFileName(
  HMODULE hModule,
  LPTSTR lpFilename,
  DWORD nSize
);

In code like this:

char myFilename[MAX_PATH];
GetModuleFileName(NULL,myFilename,MAX_PATH);

//myFilename now has the directory

[gftmc]

im not sure but wont

#include<iostream>
int main(int argc,char *argv[]){
if(argc !=2){
cout<<argv[0]<<endl;
}
}

work?

[Prelude]

>im not sure but wont <snip code> work?
No, argv[0] isn't required to be meaningful at all (ie. it can be an empty string), and even if it is meaningful, it isn't required to contain the full path.

[siavoshkc]

It is a Win32 thread I think.

[dwks]

On Windows it always has the full path as far as I can tell. But not with other OSes.

[CornedBee]

Only because explorer and visual studio put in the full path. Try calling the program from the console and you'll see that you're wrong.

[Salem]

Or if you call it using an exec() function, you can completely lie about it.

[dwks]

Only because explorer and visual studio put in the full path. Try calling the program from the console and you'll see that you're wrong.

On Windows 98, the full path is put in no matter how I execute the program; console or explorer or otherwise. (Except for exec(). ) I guess it isn't the same for other versions of windows?