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Say I want to prepend what returns from something GetCurrentDirectory to another string? What's a good way to go about this?

:D appending it the other way, for instance.

include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc

.data?
buffer   db MAX_PATH dup (?)

.code

AppName   db   "Test app", 0
MyFile   db   "\MyParas.ini", 0

start:
   invoke GetCurrentDirectory, MAX_PATH-12, addr buffer
   invoke lstrcat, addr buffer, addr MyFile
   invoke MessageBox, NULL, addr buffer, addr AppName, MB_OK
   invoke ExitProcess, 0
end start

That was exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

 Hi slovach:

You can also try:
The API GetModuleFileName
invoke GetModuleFileName,hInst,addr buffer,260]


GetModuleFileName does NOT always give you the working directory.. especially if the working directory was set by a shortcut/lnk...
and you also have to trim the exe name from it...