>Hi,
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>I'm writing a small "splash screen" app using Borland C++ Builder.
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>It works quite well, but I'd like to defend the exe against a user installing my exe in another directory and trying to run it.
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>What I'd like a a procedure in C++ or the Windows API which returns the same information which I get with SYS(16) in Visual FoxPro, so that I can ascertain the location of the exe which is running (the splash screen) and thus find the location of my Visual FoxPro exe (which will be in the same directory).
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>Using the current directory won't necessarily work, as the user could run my exe from a Windows NT command prompt
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>i.e. C:\myappdir\myapp.exe.
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>Best
>
>Matt.

If you're registring the VFP app, you could always check the registry for the default directory. There's a class that comes with VFP for accessing it, as well (I believe) a file for downloading from here.

Otherwise, you could use:

DECLARE INTEGER GetCurrentDirectory IN Win32API;
  INTEGER nBufferLength, STRING @lpBuffer
lcbuffer = SPACE(200)
lnbuflen = LEN(lcbuffer)
lnbuflen = GetCurrentDirectory(lnbuflen, @lcbuffer)

This will return the current working directory of the application.