How to get application directory

[Cor Jansen]

Hello all,

My application uses some files that are in the same directory as the
application.
How can a get a path to this directory using carbon?

By the way: can anyone tell me how to find such information. I only see a
index of all funcitons, but how to
search a function you do not the name of?
Is there a search engine that you can tell to find something like "get
application directory"?

Thanks, Cor.

[Tom Dowdy]

In article <3f5d7ea6$0$58712$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
"Cor Jansen"
<corj@removeThisPartIncludingTheUnderscores_dapdes ign.com> wrote:

> My application uses some files that are in the same directory as the
> application.
> How can a get a path to this directory using carbon?

I've traditionally done this by calling GetProcessInfo() on the
currently running process.

However, under OS X I usually end up using the various bundle calls
because "the same directory as the application" doesn't always mean what
you might wish it to mean.

> By the way: can anyone tell me how to find such information. I only see a
> index of all funcitons, but how to
> search a function you do not the name of?
> Is there a search engine that you can tell to find something like "get
> application directory"?

I decided to try to find out how to do this. It was very complex :-)

I went to developer.apple.com and searched for "carbon get application
directory" and found the following page as the first link:
<[url]http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/Performa[/url]
nce/Carbon/Carbon_and__File_System.html>

Look for "parent" on that page and you'll find the following code:
// Get the currently running application's parent folder,
// make it into an FSRef, and iterate it
//
outStatus = FSMakeFSSpec( 0, 0, "\p", &spec );
if( outStatus == noErr )
{
outStatus = FSpMakeFSRef( &spec, &folderRef );
if( outStatus == noErr )
{
outStatus = IterateFolder( &folderRef );
}
}

So, there's another answer to your problem, along with how to find out
information...

[Miro Jurisic]

In article <3f5d7ea6$0$58712$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
"Cor Jansen" <corj@removeThisPartIncludingTheUnderscores_dapdes ign.com> wrote:

> My application uses some files that are in the same directory as the
> application.
> How can a get a path to this directory using carbon?

GetProcessBundleLocation

hth

meeroh

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[Sean McBride]

In article <3f5d7ea6$0$58712$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
"Cor Jansen"
<corj@removeThisPartIncludingTheUnderscores_dapdes ign.com> wrote:

> My application uses some files that are in the same directory as the
> application.

If possible, its better to put things in your application bundle's
/Resources folder. What kind of files are they?

[Eric Pepke]

"Cor Jansen" <corj@removeThisPartIncludingTheUnderscores_dapdes ign.com> wrote in message news:<3f5d7ea6$0$58712$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...

> Hello all,
>
> My application uses some files that are in the same directory as the
> application.
> How can a get a path to this directory using carbon?

From the one-liners:

To find where your app is use GetProcessBundleLocation(GetCurrentProcess())