The path to liberation

[richmond62]

If only . . .

I made a quickie standalone last night on my 2006-ish iMac with a few pictures stored in a folder
called "PIX" inside my home folder:

/richmondmathewson/PIX/stupid.png

carted the thing over to a Linux box at my school and dumped the PIX folder in the equivalent place there:

/MAGWITCH/PIX/stupid.png

and: NBG!

SO; as a very large number of programming language seem to be able to cope with that sort of move, I wonder
why LiveCode cannot . . .

1. The nature of the language (wow; there's a can of worms) STOPS that being implemented.

2. The LiveCode engineers HAVEN'T implemented it because:

2.1. It would be an extremely long and time-consuming bit of work.

2.2. The "Gods of Rock and Roll" don't think it is important.

HOWEVER: it IS important, and it's not just me.

[Klaus]

No wonder if you set a (more or less) absolute pathname!

Why don't you use -> specialfolderpath("home") (or -> $HOME for *NIX based OSses) to set the image path? That will work on all desktop platforms.

[richmond62]

And on an Android tablet/Phone or an Apple one?

[Klaus]

Since you cannot access "external"* folders on mobile, and Android does NOT have something like a "home" folder, I consider this question "moot"

* Means folder outside of the applications bundle -> Sandboxing!

[Klaus]

Maybe this would be a good enhancement request to set an image/audio/video pathname
to an expression à la -> specialfolderpath("home" & "/folder in home folder/image.png"

[bogs]

NBG!

No bloody good ? I can't really answer your problem with a solution, but I'm really curious if I read the NBG right

[mrcoollion]

NBG ?

Could also be No Biscuits Generated ?

[bogs]

...biscuits...mmmmm...

[FourthWorld]

LiveCode does indeed support relative paths. How did you set the image references?

[richmond62]

Nicely Boiled Greengages

[richmond62]

I set the path via the Properties inspector:

Here's my stack along with the test image so you can try this out on your machine(s) of choice:

RelativeP.zip

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[richmond62]

This:

http://lessons.livecode.com/m/2592/l/12 ... ative-path

seems difficult to understand.

But this:

http://livecode.wikia.com/wiki/Using_relative_paths

seems a bit easier to understand.

[bogs]

Nicely Boiled Greengages

Awesome, going to go look up 'greengages' now !

Dunno about the path issue you have on mac to linux, all I did was remove all the path except for the file name from the [source] box, and proceeded to move the relative folder all over my system (linux).

Image came up every time with no other modification, in the IDE.

*Edit, I also saved it in legacy 5.5 format, took me a while to realize the lowest vers. of Lc I had that could open it was 7.x
*Edit 2, Ah, PLUMS ~!

[richmond62]

This SHOULD work cross-desktop (Mac/Win/Linux), and has just been made on a Mac:

Here's the stack:

RelativeP2.zip

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[richmond62]

all I did was remove all the path

Indeed: but that is NBG because neither Thou nor I can expect our customer in a dress shop
in Omaha, Nebraska (Her name's "Marlene") to fiddle around with file paths.

Marlene

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