Get Application Directory. Example please

[Michelle Stone]

My program saves a listbox to a file. Currently I have hardcoded it to store
it to the root directory "C:\\CodList.Dat". I want it to be saved to my
program directory "C:\\MyProg\\CodList.Dat". But this "MyProg" directory may
be any directory in any drive or sub-directory.

Reading responses to a similar post I learned GetModuleFileNameEx () is a
good start. But MSDN doesn't have any examples and I am baffled. Being a
beginner I can't quite understand what HMODULE and the such are; again
reading the definitions in MSDN can't convince me I understood.

Please give me an example, or just a one line example of
GetModuleFileNameEx().

If possible also tell me how to extract just the Directory Name (full path
to directory) by crossing out the filename.

For your reference, I am copying the syntax of GetModuleNameEx() from MSDN,
which I just can't understand...

====

GetModuleFileNameEx
-------------------
The GetModuleFileNameEx function retrieves the fully qualified path for the
specified module.

DWORD GetModuleFileNameEx(
HANDLE hProcess, // handle to the process
HMODULE hModule, // handle to the module
LPTSTR lpFilename, // buffer that receives the path
DWORD nSize // size of the buffer
);

Parameters
==========
hProcess:
---------
Handle to the process that contains the module.

hModule:
--------
Handle to the module.

lpFilename:
-----------
Pointer to the buffer that receives the fully qualified path to the module.

nSize:
------
Specifies the size, in bytes, of the lpFilename buffer.
Return Value
If the function succeeds, the return value specifies the length of the
string copied to the buffer.

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Thank you...

-Michelle Stone

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[Alan Mukamal]

Michelle,
Just struggled through the same thing. Try the following:

char szPath[MAX_PATH];
GetModuleFileName(NULL, szPath, sizeof(szPath));
// returns full path and exe name.

// now get just the path:
strMY_APP_FOLDER = _T(szPath);
CString strMY_APP_FOLDER =
strMY_APP_FOLDER.Left(strMY_APP_FOLDER.ReverseFind('\\') + 1);
// include the backslash in the path

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[Felix Brack]

Also have a look at the api function GetModuleHandle(...). I leave the rest
up
to your imagination...

Hope this helps !

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[Fernando de Almeida Peres]

If your intention is just to write the file in the directory where do you
have your application executable, try to call the Open function like this:

CFile myFile;
...
myFile.Open("CodList.Dat",CFile::modeCreate|CFile::shareDenyNone|CFile::mode
Write);

For me, it work writing the file in the exact directory where I have my
executable...

Fernando de Almeida Peres

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