What is this code doing?

Code:

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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 ;)

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

Code:

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        bool bGotConfigValues = true;
        char sIniPath[255];
        GetCurrentDirectory( sizeof(sIniPath), sIniPath );
        sprintf( sIniPath,"%s\\..\\..\\%s.ini",sIniPath, INI_FILE_BASE);

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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

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:

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sprintf( sIniPath,"%s..\\%s.ini",sIniPath, INI_FILE_BASE);

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I’ll work on making things better after I just get this to work.