FindExecutable

[Mr Earl]

What's wrong with this example?

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szWork  db 261 dup(0)

szFileNm  db "C:\masm32\AsmEditV5\Projects\Elib\Elib.asm",0

INVOKE FindExecutable,OFFSET szFileNm,0,OFFSET szWork


The return I always get is 31, "There is no association for the specified file type".
I know there IS a File Association for the file, and I tried several other files.

[pbrennick]

Since there is an association for that file, then the only thing that can be wrong is the path (though why it does not return a ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND or ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND is beyond me).  Can you post the code so I can test it on my machine?  There is something missing here.

Paul

[Tedd]

All seems to work fine for me..
I tried both ADDR and OFFSET - they both give the same result.
For a non-existent file, it returns error code 2.
There doesn't seem to be any problem with case sensitivity either.
:eek

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.386
.model flat, stdcall
option casemap:none
include windows.inc
include kernel32.inc
includelib kernel32.lib
include user32.inc
includelib user32.lib
include shell32.inc
includelib shell32.lib

.data
szfname db "C:\temp\test.asm",0
cod     db "Error - code %lu",0

.data?
szwork  db 261 dup (?)

.code
start:
    ;invoke FindExecutable, ADDR szfname,0,ADDR szwork
    invoke FindExecutable, OFFSET szfname,0,OFFSET szwork
    .IF (eax > 32)
        invoke MessageBox, NULL,ADDR szwork,ADDR szwork,MB_OK
    .ELSE
        invoke wsprintf, ADDR szwork,ADDR cod,eax
        invoke MessageBox, NULL,ADDR szwork,ADDR szwork,MB_OK or MB_ICONERROR
    .ENDIF
    invoke ExitProcess, NULL
end start

[Mr Earl]

Paul & Tedd,

As I was preparing to post my code I found MY mistake.

I inserted the code into an existing program just to test that function, but
the:  szFileNm db "C:\masm32\AsmEditV5\Projects\Elib\Elib.asm",0
was inserted under .data?

For some reason, it's only AFTER I post a question on the forum that I
find my mistakes.

Thanks for your time.

Steve

[pbrennick]

Hey Steve,
No problem at all.  It happens to us all.

Paul

[pbrennick]

Tedd,
Even though you wrote that test piece to determine the problem, it actually is a very useful tool to quickly show an association.  Well done and simple!   :thumbu :thumbu

Paul