node-webkit has no current directory?

[bos...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I cannot find the current directry whose an app executed with *.nw.

the global.__dirname is undefined in node-webkit, 

but system current directory exists whose an app exected with nw-dir

(e.g. $ nw .)

How I access the infomation for the current directory with Javascript?

regards,

Kanryu

[Roger]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:11 PM, <bos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I cannot find the current directry whose an app executed with *.nw.
> the global.__dirname is undefined in node-webkit,

This should be a bug. We'll fix it.

> but system current directory exists whose an app exected with nw-dir
> (e.g. $ nw .)
>
> How I access the infomation for the current directory with Javascript?

There were some discussion here in the mailing list, which could be helpful:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/node-webkit/IwGzluFC9iU/discussion
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/node-webkit/cMjpP4ptrWg/discussion

Roger

[Roger]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Roger <wen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I cannot find the current directry whose an app executed with *.nw.
>> the global.__dirname is undefined in node-webkit,
>
> This should be a bug. We'll fix it.

Filed as: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/264

You could track it there.

Roger

[bos...@gmail.com]

Filed as: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/264

You could track it there.

Thanks.

I found process.cwd() as system current dir.(sometimes temporary directory) 

and I want the path which nw.exe is running.

Because of loading/saving application's config files.

Regards,

Kanryu

[Roger WANG]

You can check with path.dirname(process.execPath)

I'll add these information to wiki since they are FAQs.
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Roger WANG Intel Open Source Technology Center