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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of course, poke around for half an hour, then decide to email the list, and
find it 5 minutes later.

Sorry for the noise.

(I'm going to try Pgm().GetExecutablePath()).

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to wrap up the last few remaining bugs before I'm happy with
> the OS X package.
>
> One of them is to get the "Getting Started" and other help files to work.
> My current packages put the help PDFs in English in the application bundle,
> near the executables.  Due to OS X custom, these are *probably* at
> /Applications/Kicad/help/, but it is not safe to rely on that.  On the
> other hand, I can build a relative path from the current path of the
> executable, and be relatively confident there.
>
> I am looking at SearchHelpFileFullPath and I see two bases for the
> search--DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH and the KICAD environment variable.
>
> Is there an easy way to get the path to the currently running executable
> in this file?
>
> I am definitely still learning my way around the code base...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> W&L
>