Comments on: Win32 Tip: Set Working Directory to App Directory http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2006/07/05/win32-tip-set-working-directory-to-app-directory/ News, opinions, articles, tips & tricks on game development with an Indie twist. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:59:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: gdmike http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2006/07/05/win32-tip-set-working-directory-to-app-directory/#comment-33792 gdmike Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:34:21 +0000 http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2006/07/05/win32-tip-set-working-directory-to-app-directory/#comment-33792 Nice catch! Corrected in the post. Nice catch! Corrected in the post.

]]> By: Nathan Blomquist http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2006/07/05/win32-tip-set-working-directory-to-app-directory/#comment-32832 Nathan Blomquist Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:36:56 +0000 http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2006/07/05/win32-tip-set-working-directory-to-app-directory/#comment-32832 Great little post! One problem: The call to SetCurrentDirectory() should have appPath passed in, not appDir. strrchr() returns a pointer to the last position of the character in the original string. Therefore setting it to 0 (zero) results in an empty string beginning at appDir. Passing appPath to SetCurrentDirectory works because appDir is set to 0 (zero), which is really just pointing into appPath! -- Nate Great little post!

One problem:
The call to SetCurrentDirectory() should have appPath passed in, not appDir. strrchr() returns a pointer to the last position of the character in the original string. Therefore setting it to 0 (zero) results in an empty string beginning at appDir. Passing appPath to SetCurrentDirectory works because appDir is set to 0 (zero), which is really just pointing into appPath!

– Nate

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