Get location of AE SDK plugin

[AnmolM]

Hi. I want to get the location of the plugin via AE SDK, so I can query the file creation time. How would I do this ?

Its better to get it dynamically in case the user has a non-standard path where the plugin is installed.

[shachar carmi]

this is what i use for mac:

NSString *appParentDirectory = [[[NSBundle bundleForClass:[SomeClassNameUniqueToYourPlugin class]] bundlePath] stringByDeletingLastPathComponent];

and for windows:

GetModuleFileNameW((HINSTANCE)&__ImageBase, folderW, MAX_PATH);

i'm sure there are other ways, but this works for me.

[AnmolM]

Thanks. I can understand the char buffer and size values - folderW and MAX_PATH.

What would __ImageBase be ? Is it just the name of the filter I have compiled ? i.e. XXX.aex ?

[AnmolM]

EDIT:- A simple search helped 🙂

EXTERN_C IMAGE_DOS_HEADER __ImageBase;

....

WCHAR   DllPath[MAX_PATH] = {0};
GetModuleFileNameW((HINSTANCE)&__ImageBase, DllPath, _countof(DllPath));

Thanks a lot Shachar..