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

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

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> From: pancake <pancake youterm com>
> Date: December 5, 2009 9:21:54 AM GMT+01:00
> To: Mark Dewey <dewemark gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [Vala] Getting path to my program's directory

> Can you read the documentation? It is there for something, in case  
> of doubt there's always the source code and then the irc.
>
> GtkFileChooser opens in curdir.. So it works if you do ./foo. There  
> are functions in glib that may help to do it. Just parse argv0 or  
> even better, just use glib
>
> http://references.valadoc.org/glib-2.0.html
>
> See glib.environment namespace
>
> Are you serious about opening dialogs to get a string representing  
> the path to the program? I can't believe it srsly
>
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Mark Dewey <dewemark gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Arkadi Viner wrote:
> > > Hi guys.
> > > I need to execute some program which is located in my program's  
> > > directory.
> > > Is there any API to get the path to my program's directory?
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > 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.
> >
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