Applicantion path using a shortcut

Hi everybody

I developed an application and deployed using matlab application compiler. The main function needs to open a .txt file to read some parameters to use in the calculations. After installing the application, I run the executable file from the folder where it has been installed and the program runs ok. But when I try to run the executable from the shortcut, the application dont find the .txt file because the shortcut path is in a temporary path.

This is the code

[Dir]=cd;

cd(Dir);

[a Conf]=textread(fullfile(Dir,'config.dat'),'%s %s',4,'whitespace','\t');

I need the code to find the path where the application executable is and not the shortcut path.

Best regards.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See my attached utility to determine installation path from within your program.

It's for Windows only, and is based on code the Mathworks gave me.