Comments on: Visual Basic – Search for the drive locations instead of me setting it (BEFORE compilation to .exe) http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:11:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: sdelan http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/#comment-74404 sdelan Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:53:19 +0000 #comment-74404 That’s what I mean. Could you give me the pre-compilation code, since I’m a newbie… and don’t really know much.

Thanks

]]> By: carlosdl http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/#comment-74400 carlosdl Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:27:54 +0000 #comment-74400 I guess that would work, Vatchy.

My point was that if both, the application and the script (batch file), are on the same path, then there is no need to specify the path.

]]> By: vatchy http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/#comment-74398 vatchy Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:51:19 +0000 #comment-74398 If I understand your question correctly, you want to insert a flash drive with a program on it and you want the program to run a batch file that is on the same flash drive without knowing what the actual drive letter is going to be. If that is correct then the answer is easy: copy APP.PATH to a string variable and then get the drive letter from that:

Drive = left(app.path, 3)

will get you “F:” (or whatever the drive is)

]]> By: sdelan http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/#comment-74392 sdelan Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:35:29 +0000 #comment-74392 That’s right.

]]> By: carlosdl http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/#comment-74386 carlosdl Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:28:47 +0000 #comment-74386 It seems that we have a big communication problem here.

You said this: “Because if I don’t set a specific drive I can’t compile (it won’t let me compile).”

What I understand from that text is that you tried with some code without specifying the drive letter, and you got an error message. So, what is the code you tried, and what is the error message you got ?

]]> By: sdelan http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/#comment-74351 sdelan Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:08:08 +0000 #comment-74351 well, that’s the thing… I’m not sure what the code would be… (so that it finds the drive of the usb by itself once the .exe is ran)

]]> By: carlosdl http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/#comment-74290 carlosdl Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:14:58 +0000 #comment-74290 In this line:

shell.run(Chr(34) & (”F:\workcp.bat”) & Chr(34), 0)

The drive letter is inside a string, which is a parameter for the RUN command, and it is not verified at compile time.

Can you post the exact line of code you use when the drive letter is not specified, and the error message you get ?

]]> By: sdelan http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/#comment-74277 sdelan Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:06:23 +0000 #comment-74277 Because if I don’t set a specific drive I can’t compile (it won’t let me compile).

]]> By: carlosdl http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/#comment-74269 carlosdl Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:45:20 +0000 #comment-74269 Sledan, I still don’t understand.

Why do you say that Visual Basic “wants you to set the specific drive” ?

]]> By: sdelan http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/visual-basic-search-for-the-drive-locations-instead-of-me-setting-it-before-compilation-to-exe/#comment-74243 sdelan Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:19:56 +0000 #comment-74243 Visual Basic. it’s going to be on a flash drive, so the drivers will change. Visual basic wants me to set the specific drive F: E: etc.. but I don’t know what the drive will always be…

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