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Re: ExtractFilePath doesn't work when I upgrade my project from BCB6.

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:55
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"Larry Griffiths" <nospame@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
news:48727c48$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> We have something strange with ExtractFilePath(Application->ExeName)
> but if I remember correctly the Application.Exe name has some ../ in it to
> go up a level and then down to a directory.

The Application->ExeName property cannot return such a value.

> We used to just get the absolute path I think.

The Application->ExeName property getter calls ParamStr(0), which calls 
GetModuleFileName(), which always returns an absolute path to the file that 
the calling process was spawned from.


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