Get project root path?

sigmate · January 9, 2020, 4:47pm

Hello,

Is there a way to retrieve the path of a project’s root folder (where the .jucer file is) in code? Does the Projucer generate any such macro?

Thanks for your help.

daniel · January 9, 2020, 6:33pm

Well, this only ever exists on your machine.
But for a develop tool, I created a heuristic similar to this:

github.com

ffAudio/foleys_gui_magic/blob/master/Editor/foleys_ToolBox.cpp#L300




juce::File ToolBox::getLastLocation() const
{
    if (lastLocation.exists())
        return lastLocation;


    auto start = juce::File::getSpecialLocation (juce::File::currentExecutableFile);
    while (start.exists() && !start.isRoot() && start.getFileName() != "Builds")
        start = start.getParentDirectory();


    if (start.getFileName() == "Builds")
    {
        auto resources = start.getSiblingFile ("Resources");
        if (resources.isDirectory())
            return resources;


        auto sources = start.getSiblingFile ("Source");
        if (sources.isDirectory())
            return sources;
    }

sigmate · January 13, 2020, 2:29pm

Thanks, @daniel!