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Newcomers DBPro Corner / cant load image...am I that stupid?

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TrueMOD
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Ok its been a long long long time I used DBPro but now I returned since Im in mood to write some new little game. Before I gave up using DBPro because it was really buggy and I never knew if it was my fault or DBPro's fault when a program didnt work.
Now I installed DBPro again and updated to the lates version which as far as I know is 6.6
I also updated the editor to latest version.
Now I wanted to start really simple...and check out things to get used to DBPro again...


well yeah as you can see this code is really small and was just for testing purposes. Now it gives me the error that the image could not be loaded.
I thought it might be because of a typo...but checked and it was not
I thought it might be because of the PNG format...changed to bmp, tga and whatever...it was not
I thought it might be because of the folder specified in filename "gfx/..." so I put it in the main folder...it was not
I really dont know whats wrong here and I feel a little bit stupid not being able to load a simple image since I wrote full applications with DBPro already long time ago...or is this a DBPro bug again?


Thanks in advance...


Ben
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vorconan
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Posted: 2nd Aug 2007 23:44
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just use load image "gfx/mainchar.png",1 and see if that makes a difference


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TrueMOD
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nope doesnt make a difference

runtime error 506 - couldnt load image at line x
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TrueMOD
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sorry for the double post but couldnt find an edit button (its late here maybe am blind)

I found the "bug"
I set this ones program folder to be a completely different than the usual project folder DBPro uses...now DBPro kinda didnt care and created it in the default projects folder as well (double creation?) and used this as work folder...there of course I didnt have the gfx since I thought DBPro will use the folder specified when I created a new project...

Thanks for trying to help though!
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Zeus
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Put it in the project's folder. Did you put it there?

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Benjamin
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Try running the EXE from outside the IDE. I had a problem recently where if I ran it from the IDE it'd give me the same error.

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Commander in Chief
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Here is how your folder structure should work:

ProjectFolder/MyProject.dbpro
ProjectFolder/MyProject.dba
ProjectFolder/gfx/mainchar.png

Hope I helped.
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Daemon
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You may have the same problem as this person.

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Benjamin
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I've just realised that media is loaded relative to the location of the project/source file when the EXE is run from the IDE, this might only occur with the default IDE however.

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Alquerian
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Try this:


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tikki
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i am to having the same problem
i tried Alquerian's code but i still get an error (yes i changed path and used my appropriate file name ). i tried "exe with attached media" but that didn't work either. please help

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andrey d
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I come across this every single time when I program. The only way for me to run anything is to actually run the executable itself, that's the only thing that did the trick for me. Any type of media and DBPro goes crazy.
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Benjamin
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Quote: "The only way for me to run anything is to actually run the executable itself, that's the only thing that did the trick for me"

I think I know the cause of this. When you load an EXE from an application (in this case the IDE) it is possible to specify the 'working directory' for it, which is where by default it will look for files in. I've noticed that when I run the EXE from the IDE, I have to specify paths for media that are relative to the project/source files, which to me says that the IDE is setting the EXE's working directory to that of the project/source files. This doesn't happen when you run the EXE externally as the default working directory is where the EXE is.

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Kieran
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I found that when that junk happens, you make a new project and copy/paste the code over and then it works again. I have no idea why.

It doesn't matter where the files are as long as you have the appropriate filepath.

Generally I find it easiest to have

Projects/MyProject/project.dbpro
Projects/MyProject/Media/...PNG

or something along those lines but its up to you really.

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