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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / filepath help

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VG Teacher
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2011 13:23
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I am using DarkBASIC Pro in the classroom. On a few computers, when a student uploads media to a game, the entire file path is shown, so only users with access to the student's network folder can run the game. Is there a setting I can change so that, like most of the computers, the file can be accessed by anyone with DB(and these students DO check the box that specifies that the media should be copied into the current directory)?

Thanks in advance!!!!!!
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2011 14:22 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2011 14:23
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Hi VG Teacher. Are you running the game from a separate location to the media folder? If not the default filepath is the current folder the executable is run from. It's better to keep the media in the same folder or a sub-folder. A standard way would be:

//MyGame/
//MyGame/MyGame.exe
//MyGame/Media/
//MyGame/Media/MyImage.png
//MyGame/Media/MyOtherImage.png
...etc.

EDIT: So you'd load media as follows:


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Posted: 22nd Nov 2011 15:30
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Thank you for your quick reply.

Yes, the media is in a sub-folder of the folder the executable is in. On most machines, it all works fine.

The students are saving everything in a folder on a network drive. Then they are giving me a zipped folder. All of the images are there, but they have a filepath to their personal network folder.

When I add media, it looks like the picture I attached, but when a few students add media, it shows the filepath, even though it's in the right folder, and their game will only run if I have access to their network drives. Or if I manually change the game.

So, I am wondering if there is a setting that I haven't found to access the media if it is in the correct folder, without typing the entire filepath.

Yikes. I hope that makes sense.
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2011 16:38 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2011 16:38
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Are you using this setting under settings?



If you are attaching the media you need to compile with "Attached Media", this compiles the images etc into the executable so you don't need the separate files, just the exe.

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Thank you, baxslash, I will check when the student logs in today.
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If you don't want to wrap the media into the exe, the .dbp project file is a text file that will sometimes use the full paths instead of a relative one. You can edit them out manually in notepad by editing the dbp file itself.

I'm fairly certain the newest editor that ships with the latest update doesn't do this anymore, but I could be mistaken.


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