On 12 Oct 2007, at 19:27, Chris wrote: > This may not be an FLTK specific question. What I want to do on > Windows is get the path to the executable so that I can save data > files to a directory like APPPATH/DATA/ and also save a preference > file to the APPPATH directory. It looks like that default path > when saving files is whichever directory I have currently opened in > Windows Explorer. > > I would also like this code to work with Linux someday. If I > remember correctly, in Linux you would want to save data into the > users home directory, regardless of where the binary is installed. > > Anybody have any advice and/or example functions/code to look at?
This was discussed on the list quite recently, erm... here: http://www.fltk.org/newsgroups.php?gfltk.general+v:22083 That code shows how an exe can find out where it "lives", on multiple platforms - originally with a view to having a "resources" folder in the apps dir. For unix systems, you are better just having your app check for a HOME environment variable at runtime and using that, however, unless you want specifically to store stuff in the apps own folders... _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
