I am looking for a function that will return the path the application is installed in.

This is different than GetCurrentDirectory.

Thanks for your help.



Larry Asher

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Larry Asher

Try setting a CString equal to m_pszHelpFilePath

ie. CString sPath = m_pszHelpFilePath;

That might work if I had a variable named m_pszHelpFilePath. There should be a way to return the application path. You can do it in VB.

To date, I am a little disappointed with VC++. I have really looked forward to working with the language. I know that some of my frustration is due to the learning curve but others are just the amount of work required to perform some of the simplist task.

Any help you all can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Larry Asher

Actually, if you have an application class in your project then the m_pszHelpFilePath variable is present. Try it out! I used it in my CabcApp::InitInstance() function that is added by class wizard.

Hey, it is not there! Beside that is really a hokey work around. I am looking for a real solution. Shouldn't be that difficult.

Good luck.

Larry Asher

Hey!!! It is there!!! Look up CWinApp::m_pszHelpFilePath in Help. Or try somthing like this:

char buf[MAX_PATH];
GetCurrentDirectory(MAX_PATH, buf);
CString sCurrentDir = buf;

Have you actually tried surfing google on this topic it seems like it would be fairly easy to find.

About your comment on VC++. It just takes a while coming from VB because things that were easy to do in VB are not easy to do in VC...but VC is much more powerful and a tighter/cleaner way of programming. I myself programmed in VB for a couple of years and would never turn back to it now. Object Oriented programming creates great code. Good Luck...

Larry, I forgot that in your original post you said that it is not GetCurrentDirectory...I really think you are looking to use the m_pszHelpFilePath variable. What you do is get the path it gives you and trim off the filename at the end. This WILL get the path to where ever the application is running from.

BOOL CWhateverApp::InitInstance()
{
CString sCurrentDir = m_pszHelpFilePath;
sCurrentDir = sCurrentDir.Left(sCurrentDir.ReverseFind('\\'));

// You can test it by adding this line
AfxMessageBox(sCurrentDir, 32);

...
}