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I am having trouble getting any images to register or load in a basic tutorial program. I put a .bmp in a folder right beside my saved program. In the folder, both the image and the program load separately, but when I check through my program, it claims the .bmp I am trying to load doesn't work and I get a blank screen when i try to load

I am very amateur at programming but have great aspirations for it, but this simple little set back is absolutely perplexing and very discouraging. I have looked at several similar problems on the message board but have failed to find a fix. If any one could help, I would be greatly appreciative, as it is hard for me to move on and learn more without fixing this basic problem first; which I am sure is just a new guy's mistake and easy to change.

Thanks for any help! I attached my program and the picture below.


Load image "bloke.bmp",1

paste image 1,100,100
if file exist("bloke.bmp") = 0
print "File does not exist"
else
print "File Exists"
endif
wait key
end

You should try something like this:

welcome to the programming world!

don't stress out about all the little hurdles, everyone goes through them and the community here is very friendly and helpful.

I will suggest starting out by reading TDK's tutorials.

they are some of the best dbpro resources on the net.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=99497&b=10

good luck and have fun.

You said you put the image in a folder next to the saved program. In your code it would need to know the folder name that the image is inside. I ran it without the image directory, and got an error. Put it in the same folder as the program and got file exists and a picture of a man. Not sure if thats what you are trying to do, but thats what I did to get the image to load. Hope this helps!

Make sure you have a .dbpro PROJECT file in the same folder as well, and that it's saved properly.

Basically, DBPro compiles to an executable. The image path is relative to the executable, so if you load the image "bloke.bmp", it expects the image to be in the same directory as the executable. If there is no project file, DBPro will put the executable in some temporary folder somewhere on the computer, and if the media isn't in that folder, it won't find it.