How to open a file through ShellExecute in parent directory?

[exomo]

Wide characters again. You need the L for wide character string literals, L"\\"
If you are working with wide chars you have to use them everywhere, you cannot mix wide strings with "normal" strings.

[alienoiz]

Of course this is possible. You can get the path of your application by using the GetModuleFileName() function: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683197%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
From that filename you can remove the last part which is the actual filename to get the path, if want to have the parent directory just remove the last portion of the pathname again. Append the name of the file you want to run and give it to ShellExecute.

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[alienoiz]

Wide characters again. You need the L for wide character string literals, L"\\"
If you are working with wide chars you have to use them everywhere, you cannot mix wide strings with "normal" strings.

sorry..i dint saw this email notification...ive been attacked by hackers lately...forget my last post...i will try this now...thanks again

[alienoiz]

Wide characters again. You need the L for wide character string literals, L"\\"
If you are working with wide chars you have to use them everywhere, you cannot mix wide strings with "normal" strings.

OK..the code is not giving me any error but it is also not openning my .exe file....
any idea?
Thank You!

[alienoiz]

Wide characters again. You need the L for wide character string literals, L"\\"
If you are working with wide chars you have to use them everywhere, you cannot mix wide strings with "normal" strings.

maybe its because it cannot identify the GetModuleName for this "dll" file!



see...this is the suposed dll file that is inserted in a project of another type of compiler...so when i set a value to this module it performs an action, but, if i use GetModuleFileName probably it wont recognize the main Project where im working but search for the "dll" file path....although if i set shellexecute with the full path to my external .exe file ...it opens!

can this be the problem???!!!!

maybe i shoud use a code to find the exe file before and then append it to shellexecute instead of using GetModuleFilename!

[exomo]

Please use the edit function if you have something to add to you previous post. Don't make a new post for every new comment.

I have no idea how SynthEdit works. And I'm not really sure about what filename GetModuleFileName() returns when called from a dll.
Is it possible to have some output (like cout <<) in your dll? If yes just print the string you get as filename and cut from the end or append as needed.

Perhaps it is easier to just pass a relative filename like "..\\Test.exe" to ShellExecute. I really can't help you with this.

[alienoiz]

Please use the edit function if you have something to add to you previous post. Don't make a new post for every new comment.

I have no idea how SynthEdit works. And I'm not really sure about what filename GetModuleFileName() returns when called from a dll.
Is it possible to have some output (like cout <<) in your dll? If yes just print the string you get as filename and cut from the end or append as needed.

Perhaps it is easier to just pass a relative filename like "..\\Test.exe" to ShellExecute. I really can't help you with this.

Thanks....im gonna try my luck with this....much thanks for your help!

[alienoiz]

you might be helpfull again...i got this code...it works to open the file but how do i set a way to copy the selected directory into the shellexecute in order to do not open the browser for folder a second time?

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      BROWSEINFO bi = { 0 };
        bi.lpszTitle = (L"Browse for your folder! Should be the same where the VST is installed.");
        LPITEMIDLIST pidl = SHBrowseForFolder ( &bi );
      if ( pidl != 0 )
    {
        SHGetPathFromIDList ( pidl, path);

      SetCurrentDirectory ( path );
      hFind = FindFirstFile ( L"Test.exe", &FindFileData );
      
      int Open = (int)ShellExecuteW(NULL, L"open", FindFileData.cFileName, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
        IMalloc * imalloc = 0;
        if ( SUCCEEDED( SHGetMalloc ( &imalloc )) )
        {
            imalloc->Free ( pidl );
            imalloc->Release ( );
        }
   
   Open;



Thank you!