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How to properly use GetModuleFileName?

Following code: #include #include using namespace std; int main () { LPWSTR buffer; //or wchar_t * buffer; GetModuleFileName(NULL, buffer, MAX_PATH) ; cout<
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How can I calculate the complete buffer size for GetModuleFileName?

The GetModuleFileName() takes a buffer and size of buffer as input; however its return value can only tell us how many characters is has copied, and if the size is not enough (ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER). How do I determine the real required buffer…
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How do I GetModuleFileName() if I only have a window handle (hWnd)?

I'm trying to get the name of the executable of a window that is outside my C# 2.0 application. My app currently gets a window handle (hWnd) using the GetForegroundWindow() call from "user32.dll". From the digging that I've been able to do, I think…
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How to find the parent exe of a dll from inside the dll?

I need to do some stuff in a dll based on which process has loaded it. So being relatively new to windows programming I need help figuring out how to find the exe which loaded the current dll. So far I have been hard coding the exe file name, which…
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Does Chicken Scheme have an equivalent to Perl's $0?

How can I reliably get the script name in Chicken Scheme? It seems that -ss eats up the script name, so it's not visible unless I use dot slash to run my scripts. scriptedmain.scm: #!/usr/bin/env csi -q (display (command-line-arguments)) (display…
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Comparing two TCHAR's with same value results false

I am trying to check my applications path, and if it is not a specified path, then move it. I feel like my code is solid, yet it does not work properly. TCHAR pCheck[MAX_PATH]; TCHAR…
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GetModuleFileNameA returns weird results

I'm trying to get the name of a module loaded in another process with GetModuleFileNameA. I've loaded a symbol using dbgHelp and got its module base address but 2 weird thing happen: 1. Sometimes GetModuleFileNameA returns system error codes 5:…
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GetModuleFileName always return lowercase in service

i need to get path to current executable in service, but when using GetModuleFileNameW or global variable _pgmptr i always get lowercase path, which is incorrect for me. example: original path is C:/MyApp/app.exe and GetModuleFileNameW always…
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GetModuleFileName not returning Path

I'm trying to get the current directory under win7 with VS c++ but TCHAR pBuf[MAX_PATH]; int bytes = GetModuleFileName(NULL, pBuf, MAX_PATH); std::cout << bytes << " " << pBuf << " " << GetLastError() << std::endl; returns length 58 and what…
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GetModuleFileNameW returns different path than GetCurrentDirectoryW (subst)

I have created a subst drive like the following: G:\ => F:\projects\projectname\ When I call GetModuleFileNameW GetModuleFileNameW(GetModuleHandleW(nullptr), buffer2, MAX_PATH); It returns the Module path using the original path, Ex:…
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Can I retrieve a path, containing other than Latin characters?

I call GetModuleFileName function, in order to retrieve the fully qualified path of a specified module, in order to call another .exe in the same file, via Process::Start method. However, .exe cannot be called when the path contains other than Latin…
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Null-terminate a string in MASM / GetModuleFileName

In my program I call the GetModuleFileName function from the Windows API. The function tells me the path of the running .EXE file. On Windows XP machines the string (szSrc) is not null-terminated according to the MSDN. invoke…
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How to get AppPath to Executable file's directory using C language on Windows (using MinGW gcc )

My executable file is in this place --> D:\Examples\C_Pro\newApp.exe Also in that "C_Pro" folder contain several files ( file1.txt, file2.txt, file44.exe, newApp.c ) In my newApp.c file, I includes a ShellExecute Function to execute "file44.exe"…
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What might getmodulefilename block on?

We have a multithreaded application. One of the worker threads calls GetModuleFilename for logging purposes and we've seen a deadlock where the worker threads held a lock before calling GetModuleFilename which blocks forever. We can and have…
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Rust get executable path of process by window handle or process id

I'm trying to get executable path of process on Windows OS. I have window handle coming from some windows event, from window handle I can acquire process id using GetWindowThreadProcessId(). Then, according to windows api docs I can use…
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