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[Bork]

How do I tell from inside a program what name the .exe has?

For example, if the running program is called myprog.exe, I want to have code in the program that will get a string containing "myprog.exe".

 

[SwapSawe]

when defining main() use this notation
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
..
..
.
.
}
Any time in ur program whenever u'll say argv[0] it will return u a string containing name of the program. And if u r diehard to get .exe extension along with that. use strcat() to concatenate prog name with .exe like this
strcat(name,argv[0]);
strcat(name,".exe"
in name now u'll have "program.exe".
C C is that simple.
Regards,
SwapSawe.

 

[abp]

If you are running a Windows Program which doesnt
use the console, then this approach doesnt work.

For a windows program this is the approach.

// your program
WinMain( HINSTANCE hThisInst, HINSTANCE hPrevInst, ... )
{
LPCTSTR lpModName;
DWORD dwSz = 256; // size of the path of file

if ( GetModuleFileName( hThisInst, lpModName, dwSz ))
{
cout << lpModName << endl;
}
}

abp

 

[Bork]

The two posts offered are correct. Unfortunately, I didn't specify that I'm using MFC with MDI. Can anyone tell me how to identify my .exe name from inside the program in this situation?

 

[IonelBurtan]

The following sequence can be put in every place from your program. It will retrieve the full path and name of your application:

char szName[MAX_PATH];
GetModuleFileName(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), szName, MAX_PATH);

Also if you need to read the command line parameters you can do this in the InitInstance method of you CWinApp derived class by reading the from a CCommmandLine class
(the wizard automatically puts this code there, check it out)

Hope this helps,


s-)

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[Cagliostro]

this one also wofk
char szName[MAX_PATH];
GetModuleFileName(GetModuleHandle(0), szName, MAX_PATH);
John Fill

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