I have an open instance of Rational Application Developer - an eclipse-based IDE developed by IBM. RAD is newly installed, and i haven't yet created a shortcut. So, before closing it, i would like to create a shortcut. The problem is i forgot the place where i installed it. Is there any way, from within the IDE (some of its menus, perhaps), to find the location of the IDE (the .exe file) on disk?
Note 1: unlike eclipse, RAD has no 'Installation Details' under Help menu
Note 2: I already found a way to see the IDE's location: from Start, in the "Search Programs and Files" box, i type "rational" and it shows me the program ; i right click, select Properties, and under the Shortcut tab, the 'Start in' field shows the containing folder of the IDE. However, this only works because the application is pinned to the Start menu. In case I delete the pin accidentally, or the pin is not even created on installation, because i don't check the corresponding box, the question still stands: how to find the IDE's location from within the IDE, not from outside it.
In Eclipse you would go to Help -> Installation Details -> Configuration tab
However, in RAD, there is no Installation Details under Help. Fortunately, it is accessible this way: Help -> About Rational® Application Developer -> Installation Details. Credit goes to greg-449 for pointing this out.
In the Installation Details window, under the Configuration tab, the relevant snippet is the following
-launcher
C:\Users\user_name\IBM_85\SDP\eclipse.exe
as a comparison, in eclipse it would look something like
-launcher
C:\Users\user_name\eclipse-jee-neon-3-win32-x86_64\eclipse\eclipse.exe
this information is also contained in the line starting with eclipse.home.location