topic Re: Autoloader - app.bundle home folder in Visual LISP, AutoLISP and General Customization Forum

Autoloader - app.bundle home folder

vladimir_michl — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:26:57 GMT

Is there a way how to find which directory is the app loaded from? I need a way to point to a specific file in the application's own .bundle folder structure - e.g. to start a specific .exe with (startapp) from the CUI menu macro.

Vladimir Michl

Re: Autoloader - app.bundle home folder

redtransitconsultants — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:54:02 GMT

It's one of these 3 locations...

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins

But if you're looking to do it from the code file within CAD, you'll need to do a reflection on the source file. Fairly easy to do in .NET not sure for LISP

Re: Autoloader - app.bundle home folder

vladimir_michl — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:12:18 GMT

Thanks,

I was thinking of some kind of variable (e.g. in the XML manifest file) saying "I'm sitting here". Another option would be to check all three possible locations.

Vladimir Michl

Re: Autoloader - app.bundle home folder

redtransitconsultants — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:32:04 GMT

I'm not sure you can do it in XML coding, even then if you could, how would you store that to call it up in a CUI button? I'm not sure that would work.

For .NET, it's simply:

public static string AssemblyDirectory
{
    get
    {
        string codeBase = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase;
        UriBuilder uri = new UriBuilder(codeBase);
        string path = Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri.Path);
        return Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
    }
}

But if you don't know where it's stored and just looking to create a CUIx button to tell you where it is... then need to have a macro that can check for a file in those 3 locations. I'm not positive that can be done as I've never tried.

Re: Autoloader - app.bundle home folder

Alexander.Rivilis — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 22:53:39 GMT

Variant:

(vl-filename-directory (findfile "<name>.cuix"))

Oops. It is a bad idea. Sorry...

Re: Autoloader - app.bundle home folder

vladimir_michl — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 08:38:13 GMT

This is what I have tried also. Unfortunately the "home" folder is not in the search path (and adding it would be a chicken-egg problem). I wish there was a mechanism for this as it is quite usual to access individual files from the app folder structure - EXEs, preconfigurations, resources...

Vladimir Michl, www.cadstudio.cz www.cadforum.cz