How to get absolute path of the extension folder

[venkat]

Hi,

I've an extension which has some javascript and an NPAPI plug-in to
assist in some native functions, which I'm adapting to chrome. At one
stage, I need the extension to spawn a new process invoking a native
executable that resides in my extension folder. I'm planning to do
this in my NPAPI plug-in, but to do this, I need the full path to the
executable.

Is there anyway I can get full (or absolute) path of the extension
folder from inside chrome extension? Using chrome-extension:// URLs
won't help since I cannot pass these to native code.

Thanks,
Venkat.

[FM]

I dont think you can do it with an API call, but if you know the
extension's ID then i think you can determine its absolute path.

look here - http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/manifest.html#key

not sure as I have not tested it.

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

Yeah, there's no real need for a non-NPAPI extension to know this value, so there's no built-in API method to get it.  You'll have to calculate the path from native code instead.

~Arne

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