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homie g dawg
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Posted: 26th Jan 2004 01:42
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is there a way to load files from your C directory when using a load command and not having to have them in the folder that the project is in??

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Wik
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Posted: 26th Jan 2004 01:47
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just use an absolute path. eg:

load image "c:\something.jpg",1


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Doremar
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Posted: 27th Jan 2004 00:20
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If you're using DBP, you can also play around with adding the media with the Media button on the side bar, that would allow you to keep media in a subdirectory beneath the project folder.

You might be able to use #include statements to do the same thing in DBC. I know you can include DLLs and other .dba files that way, but I'm not sure about media.

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bitechu
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Posted: 27th Jan 2004 00:32
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I've been using the "set dir" and putting the absolute path to the media
eg: set dir "D:\Program Files\Dark Basic Software\Dark Basic Professional\Media"

I can't tell you if that's the best way but it works and I only need to put it in once at the top of my program.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2004 01:11
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hard-wiring your executable to look for a file in a particular directory isn't usually suggested if you are at some point going to deploy your program on another machine. You'd be better off making subfolders in your game directory and copying the media you need to the appropriate sub folder. Then when you specify in your code...

load sound "\sounds\mywavefile.wav", 1

it won't matter where the program is located or installed as long as the game directory and sub directory structure is kept intact.

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bitechu
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Posted: 27th Jan 2004 01:48
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I see what your saying Cattle Rustler...but for some reason (maybe because DBP is installed on a separate drive)that method will not work on my machine.

I always get a runtime error 105 no matter how I type in the sub-directory info . When I first tried the examples nothing that included media to run would execute...and the included code was EXACTLY what you have there.

I have a bad habit of "hardwiring" things...in the case of my walkman headphones...not such a big deal....but my chopsaw...well.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2004 02:26
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put the media subdirs you need in the same folder with the exe you are building, and that should be the same place where the ide is building the .dbpro, .dba, and .bak files - then it should not matter.

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