Re: [Vala] Getting path to my program's directory

[Mark Dewey <dewemark gmail com>]

Mark Dewey wrote:
> I found an unlikely solution that works for me, although it requires Gtk
> (so it's not Vala specific—can we answer seemingly Vala-specific
> questions with non-Vala-specific answers here?)
> • Make a Gtk.FileChooserDialog
> • Call its get_current_folder method (it's your program directory by
> default, or at least it's mine on Ubuntu 9.10—it'd be nice to know if it
> worked on other operating systems, too, though.

Sorry, it's not a workable solution after all. It just gets the current
directory—it changes when the directory you start the program from changes.