CStdioFile save location to wrong path [modified]

[acerunner316]

I'm trying to save a file to a fixed location. The would like file to be saved in the same folder as the executable, so I am using a relative path. However, I get mixed results. Sometimes it saves to the proper folder, sometimes to desktop, and sometimes to C:\. If I use an absolute path, the problem goes away. So my question is whether the path specified when opening the file is required to be absolute? And if so, how can I get an absolute path from a relative path not knowing where the executable will be installed? Here is my code:

CStdioFile LcfIniFile;
CString LcsTempStr;

if (LcfIniFile.Open("test.ini", CFile::modeCreate | CFile::modeNoTruncate | CFile::modeWrite | CFile::typeText | CFile::shareDenyWrite))
{
//Process data to be writting to file in LcsTempStr
...
LcfIniFile.WriteString(LcsTempStr);
LcfIniFile.Close();
}

Thanks. Edit: MSDN says path can be relative, absolute, or network name. So now I really don't know what I'm doing wrong. Edit2: I should also note that reading the file using the relative path did not cause any problems, it was only during write. -- modified at 15:49 Wednesday 24th October, 2007

[Peter Weyzen]

I think it all depends on what the current directory is. And that all depends on how you run it.... Why not construct an explicit path to the file -- that way you can be sure. use GetModuleFileName to determine the path of the exe... split off the name and add "test.ini"

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