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The closest thing is a System property user.dir, but this doesn't
necessarily equate to App.path.  For your applications, why not set a
property (use -D on the command line) in your startup called App.path?

Tad Frysinger (TeamB)

Alan Shiers wrote:

> Hi:
>     I'm familiar with the File objects .path() and .getAbsolutePath()
> methods, but these methods don't allow me to obtain the applications
> path on the clients machine.  In Visual Basic we have a method called
> App.path.  When I use this method call as part of a string concatination
> App.path returns the path leading up to where the program sits on the
> clients computer.
> So, if myProgram is in C:\MSS\myProgram,  App.path will return
> "C:\MSS\".
> This is how I would like to use App.path in java:
> String st = App.path() + "text.txt";
>
> Result: st would equal "C:\MSS\text.txt"
>
> I need a method like this for Java! App.path is a very convenient
> method, one that I use a great deal.  I need to know, no matter where
> the client installs my java program, it will be able to find it's own
> application path within the directory structure it is in!  Does anyone
> have just such a method I can use, or is there already one in existance
> in the API that I'm not aware of?
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan Shiers