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Steve Loft
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 Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:45 pm Post subject: Relative pathnames |
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My application reads and writes to a number of files, and I've been
accessing them using names relative to the application's working directory.
I'm using madExcept, and when this gets triggered, if the user chooses
to email a bug report and then continue, the working directory gets set
to the email program's working directory, and all my file accesses fail.
Am I wrong to be using absolute paths? Should I be doing
AppDir := ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName);
at startup and then using this to create absolute file paths everywhere?
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Steve Loft
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Catherine Rees Lay
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject: Re: Relative pathnames |
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In article <esnbh1-1gh.ln1 (AT) galena (DOT) nybbles.co.uk>, Steve Loft
<steve (AT) nybbles (DOT) co.uk> writes
| Quote: | My application reads and writes to a number of files, and I've been
accessing them using names relative to the application's working
directory.
I'm using madExcept, and when this gets triggered, if the user chooses
to email a bug report and then continue, the working directory gets set
to the email program's working directory, and all my file accesses fail.
Am I wrong to be using absolute paths? Should I be doing
AppDir := ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName);
at startup and then using this to create absolute file paths everywhere?
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I'd always use an absolute filepath created on-the-fly as you suggest -
it's just too easy for the working directory to get changed. You may
think no user will ever need to change the properties of the icon on the
desktop - but if your program depends on them not doing so you can bet
that someone will!
Catherine.
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Catherine Rees Lay
To email me, use my first name in front of the "at".
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J French
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: Relative pathnames |
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On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:45:48 +0000, Steve Loft <steve (AT) nybbles (DOT) co.uk>
wrote:
| Quote: | My application reads and writes to a number of files, and I've been
accessing them using names relative to the application's working directory.
I'm using madExcept, and when this gets triggered, if the user chooses
to email a bug report and then continue, the working directory gets set
to the email program's working directory, and all my file accesses fail.
Am I wrong to be using absolute paths? Should I be doing
AppDir := ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName);
at startup and then using this to create absolute file paths everywhere?
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Yes - you should
- but you also need to post a bug report to 'mad'
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