I'm not understanding this behavior. Maybe someone can explain to me why my current working directory is not what I expect.
On my desktop, I have a folder called STKGui:
C:\Documents and Settings\Lauren\Desktop\STKGui
Located in that directory are the following files: gui.html, style.css, save.html, load.html Within STKGui there are also the following directories: Images, Scripts, and SaveData. Scripts contains various .vbs files, including gui.vbs.
I start with gui.html. I click a button which takes me to load.html. load.html uses scripts from Scripts\gui.vbs. One of the functions loads a database, and to do so I provide the location of the database: C:\Documents and Settings\Lauren\Desktop\STKGui\SaveData\SaveData.accdb Of course I want to use a relative file path instead of a fixed path. My initial attempt to load the database failed; it was trying to load from C:\Documents and Settings\Lauren\Desktop\SaveData\SaveData.accdb. So to troubleshoot I printed out the current working directory; much to my chagrin it was C:\Documents and Settings\Lauren\Desktop
I don't understand why my desktop is my current working directory. Shouldn't it be where the file is running from? I figured it would be either C:\Documents and Settings\Lauren\Desktop\STKGui (the location of load.html) OR C:\Documents and Settings\Lauren\Desktop\STKGui\Scripts (the location of gui.vbs which contains the function that's trying to load the database/printing debug messages of the current working directory).
Can someone explain why the current working directory is what it is, or better yet tell me how to get what I really want, which is the location of the files executing? (I don't care if it's the main STKGui folder or the scripts folder--as long as it's within the application's directory structure I can work with it!)
EDIT (7/14/10 4:02 pm EDT):
Various attempts at printing the current working directory or grabbing files based on what I -thought- was the relative path from my executing script have resulted in my desktop's path instead of the path of the executed script. I stumbled across this link: http://leereid.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/vbscript-current-directory-or-folder/ but none of the solutions are working for me, as I get run-time errors regarding the Wscript object. So while I don't know if any of the solutions on the aforementioned link will produce different results, if someone can help me get at least one of them working so I can find out that may be a step in the right direction.
One of the solutions, reproduced below:
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set ofso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
oShell.CurrentDirectory = ofso.GetParentFolderName(Wscript.ScriptFullName)
produces the following error:
Object required: 'Wscript' line: 659 char: 1
with line 659 being:
oShell.CurrentDirectory = ofso.GetParentFolderName(Wscript.ScriptFullName)
This solution was NOT ideal, but what I ended up doing was parsing the url in my browser to get the directory.
guiPath = Mid(location.PathName, 2, len(location.PathName))
Set regExp = New RegExp
regExp.IgnoreCase = False
regExp.Global = True
regExp.Pattern = ".*/"
Set matchCollection = regExp.Execute(guiPath)
Set match = matchCollection(0)
guiPath = match.value
regExp.Pattern = "%20"
guiPath = regExp.Replace(guiPath, " ")
systemsDBPath = guiPath & "SaveData\SaveData.accdb"
Like I said, less than ideal. May not even work once I'm working with the application this will be running in. But I couldn't find a better way.