New file I/O function to identify working directory

[patrickokeeffe]

My understanding so far is that DAQFactory uses its installation folder as 'home' - that is when referencing a file but without a path, it looks in the same folder daqfactory.exe is in. That's convenient for development but as soon as an instrument (.ctl) gets moved to a different folder or transferred to other machines, or if drive-mapping changes, etc, yada - basically if it's not stored in the install folder, then the explicit path has to be hardcoded in (yuck).

I'd really like to see a new file I/O function which returns a full string path to whichever directory the current .ctl file resides in. It could eliminate hardcoding full paths in favor of relative paths and provide users more flexibility in file I/O.

[EOlsen]

You can get this by using File.GetFilePathList(".")  It isn't fool proof. I've seen an instance of a mostly empty project where it returned the DAQFactory program directory even though the project was started somewhere else, but in most cases it will give you what you asked for.