How to get MT4 installation path?

hi, maybe some of you WinApi guys know how:

I would like to get within my .mq4 file the installation path of the MT4.

Anyone knows how this is best done.

Thanks a lot in advance.

I thought maybe something like GetCurrentDirectory Function: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx

but I'm a bit unsure how to implement it correctly in mq4.

appreciate any help.

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string TerminalPath( )Returns the directory, from which the client terminal was launched. Sample:
Print("Working directory is ",TerminalPath()); TerminalName Common functions

nubcake, Thanks so much.

and now that i think about it... even going via the windows api route is possibly still a nightmare no matter what you are trying to do.

probably not really relevant, but example :

many years ago while writing some delphi code it became obvious that the so-called current directory will change. opening a dialog box to explore the hard-drive files or directories will change it. or similarly for a save dialog box. any type of dialog box that involves browsing the file system will move the 'current directory' to that location... therefore, to get around this involved simply storing the value of current directory at the very start of the program running would obviously return the correct value before a program related dialog box was opened and changed it.

if this still follows-through to mt4 and using win api's then i'm confident that it's probable that trying to use win api's getcurrentdirectory has a good chance of being wrong if at any point you opened a file system browsing dialog and changed the directory you were looking at.

since mt4 has terminalpath then it's not an issue... just something to keep in mind when relying on seemingly innocuous functions like getcurrentdirectory. you don't always get what you think it is giving.

Thanks a lot nubcake.

I'm not so familiar with Winapi because I run linux and also my main coding experience on a private level was with 'python'.