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Started by Turold August 01, 2007 01:15 PM

3 comments, last by Turold 16 years, 8 months ago

Turold

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August 01, 2007 01:15 PM

How can I get a full path to my main exe file using Win32 and C++?

SiCrane

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August 01, 2007 01:17 PM

You can use GetModuleFileName() with a HMODULE of 0.

Turold

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August 01, 2007 01:52 PM

This function in VS2005 is superseded by GetModuleFileNameW, which returns wide chars. How can I use the orignal, with normal chars? If I can't, how can I easily convert wide chars to c chars?

SiCrane

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August 01, 2007 01:55 PM

Either go to your project settings, under general and change the character set from Unicode to multi-byte, explicitly use GetModuleFileNameA or you can use wcstombs() to translate wide characters to narrow characters. (Or if you feel like the C++ method, the narrow() member function of the ctype locale facet.)