[Lazarus] CreateRelativePath document error.

[Paul van Helden]

On 2010/02/09 03:20 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> I'm talking specifically about /relative/ paths, ie. ones with 
>> ../../../ in them.
>>
>> On 2010/02/09 02:02 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>>   - ExpandFileName()
>>>   - ExpandUNCFileName()
>>>   - ExpandFileNameUTF8()
>>>   - CleanAndExpandFilename()
>>>   - ExpandUNCFileNameUTF8()
>>>   - CleanAndExpandDirectory()
>>>
>>>
>> Graeme: you also missed this. None of those functions take a base 
>> path and applies a relative path to produce a new absolute path. The 
>> function must be able to go up some directories and then down some 
>> others.
>
>
> ExpandFileName does exactly that.
>
>
No it doesn't, unless you're assuming your current directory as the base 
path. ExtractRelativePath specifically takes a base path as a parameter. 
Its inverse should do the same. In a GUI app (at least mine) I don't 
care about my current directory.