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alcamize
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 Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject: [VB]Drive path |
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First of all W00T THE FORUMS ARE BACK!!!
2ndly I am making a tool with VB that will install firefox, plugins, apps i use etc, well i have all that worked out but I was wondering(cause i'm putting it on a USB) if i could change the path i currently have J:\\ to something that it will look for, say its not that on a diff computer it will look for the files in each drive or watever. So basically I'm asking if there is a way to change the J:\\ to something universal or something it will look for |
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yoyonerd
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You aren't being to detailed.
Is the J: the name of the flashdrive path?
Or is it the name of the System Drive?
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Frostbyt3
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 12:32 am Post subject: |
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I havent tried it in VB, but I've succesfully used (In C#)
| Code: | | string path = "%WINDIR%\\..\\"; |
to give me the users root drive(drive with windows)
In vb it would probably be
| Code: | dim path as string
path = "$WINDIR/../"; |
So to sum up, I would personally do :
| Code: | string path = "%WINDIR%\\..\\ProInstaller";
InstallApps(path); |
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alcamize
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 4:21 am Post subject: |
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J:\ is the path of the flash drive and the flash drive has the files the app will use, and say I plug the usb into another computer the path might change to K:\, so my question is how could I change
| Code: | | Call Process.Start("J:\\Programs\\Firefox Setup 3.0.10.exe") |
to something that will look for that file. or make the J:\\ changable within the app itself |
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yoyonerd
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| alcamize wrote: | J:\ is the path of the flash drive and the flash drive has the files the app will use, and say I plug the usb into another computer the path might change to K:\, so my question is how could I change
| Code: | | Call Process.Start("J:\\Programs\\Firefox Setup 3.0.10.exe") |
to something that will look for that file. or make the J:\\ changable within the app itself |
Make your program search through its drive...
Hmm, at the top of my head I'd say look into the Directory class.
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tombana
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I think App.path will get the path of the application itself. So when your application is on the flash drive, you can do:
| Code: | | Call Process.Start(App.path + "\\Programs\\Firefox Setup 3.0.10.exe") |
You might need to remove the slash before 'Programs' but I'm not sure. |
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alcamize
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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| tombana I tried your method, but that didn't work; and yoyonerd I am not sure how to search thought a drive but I came up with an idea this morning on the bus, its making a text box that will change the drive path of each of the buttons o.O just not sure how that would be coded |
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tombana
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I think App.path is for VB6 and not VB.NET. I wasn't sure which one you were using |
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shhac
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| Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| tombana wrote: | | I think App.path is for VB6 and not VB.NET. I wasn't sure which one you were using |
in VB.NET it is | Code: | | Application.StartupPath |
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92Garfield
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| Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| tombana wrote: | I think App.path will get the path of the application itself. So when your application is on the flash drive, you can do:
| Code: | | Call Process.Start(App.path + "\\Programs\\Firefox Setup 3.0.10.exe") |
You might need to remove the slash before 'Programs' but I'm not sure. |
In VB you dont gotta use \\ just use \
also you can use
| Code: | | shell (app.path & "\Programs\Firefox Setup 3.0.10.exe") |
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| Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Ehh, I'd help you but I don't really know VB~
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