🚀 go-pugleaf

Only if . is on the same drive as your class.  Windows plays "follow the
current working directory" games as you move between windows apps.

-Rich

Khurram Shakir wrote:
> 
> use
> File f = new File(".");
> String path = f.getPath();
> may this will help
> 
> regards,
> 
> Khurram
> 
> Tad Frysinger <tfrysinger@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:388D9C91.AFBCC27@earthlink.net...
> > 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
> >

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