GetCurrentDir in a NT Service App

[DanielRoca]

Hi, I'm programing a small NT Service app in Delphi 7, and I need to load an ini file in order to get some parameters, when I do for example:

ConfigIni:= TIniFile.Create('C:\Config.ini');

an obviously put the ini file in that path every thing works fine, but I would like to get the ini file not from a fixed path in the code but from the same path where the myservice.exe es located, to do that I've try two metods that work fine in a normal app but for some reason do not in the service

ConfigIni:= TIniFile.Create(ExpandFileName('Config.ini'));
or
ConfigIni:= TIniFile.Create(GetCurrentDir+'Config.ini');

any ideas why is this happening and of course how can I make this work.

Thanks.

 

[whosrdaddy]

query the registry key :
'\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\'+<the name of your service>, look for the Imagepath string Value

/Daddy


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[DanielRoca]

Thank you that worked fine.

 

[Griffyn]

I've always found ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0)) to work fine, even in service applications.