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Greetings!
I'd like to ask a quite simple question. My problem now is the following. How can I determine the location of the running program/project?
I'd like to save data into a file, which shall be in the directory of the program. Any idea how to determine the current path?
Thx
Han
Which Operating system / compiler?
You could try looking in argv[0] which is passed to main()
My SW is for Windows XP, I use Borland C++ Builder 5.0
Well, under Windows, the default directory for storage managment is the launch directory, so, just save there.
Well since then I found the solution and it works quite well.
My problem was that when I was calling a FileOpen function, it required the whole path to work... But I got the path acquiring function now. Thanks anyway for spending your time.
What's that FileOpen thing? I've never used such a function, I know tehre's an interface called so but it's part of the OLE Shell API and I don't think it's what you're using. However, you should use the CreateFile() function which is standard across the Windows platforms and compilers...
THat's right.
I use the functions: FileCreate(), FileOpen(), FileSeek() etc.
They are handy functions. They give you a handle (FileOpen does it), which you can use to access the specific file. I think it's the same as CreateFile() and so on.