Copying referenced images from a folder vs importing singly

[PaulMaguire]

Hi.

I'm STILL struggling to get into the Livecode workflow for iOS.

When I import a referenced image singly, its filename is relative to the stack e.g:
"./Media/WebImages/thisImage.jpg"
Great.
However, when I import a referenced folder full of images (New Referenced Control/All images in folder...) its filename is absolute e.g:
"/Users/Paul/Documents/CurrentJobs/Development/Media/WebImages/thisImage.jpg"
Not great.

It means it looks fine in authoring (images appear), and in the simulator (images appear) but not when testing on hardware (no images - grey box instead). What gives? Why should this be any different? If I import them singly they work as expected, but I cannot waste my time doing this - there are lots of images! BTW I have the entire Media folder included in the Copy Files tab of the Standalone Application Settings. I feel like an idiot asking such simple questions here! Apologies.

Kind regards, Paul.

[Dixie]

Paul...

importing the folder full of images into your app through the 'copy files' pane will place them in the 'engine' folder... so the path on the device would be:

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specialFolderPath("engine")/CurrentJobs/Development/Media/WebImages/thisImage.jpg

Dixie

[Simon]

Hi Paul,
With Dixie's post I guess you should set up a custom (or global) property:

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on preOpenCard
if the environment is "development" then put "/Users/Paul/Documents/CurrentJobs/Development/Media/WebImages/" into imagePath
else
put "specialFolderPath("engine")/CurrentJobs/Development/Media/WebImages/" into imagePath
end if
end preOpenCard

hmmm actually, I wonder what the path is in the simulator but you get what I mean.

Simon

[jacque]

In the general pane of preferences, there's a setting named "always use absolute paths for images". If it's on, does it help if you turn it off?

[PaulMaguire]

Thanks. Although this doesn't explain why both methods are not identical. Seems counter-intuitive.

Kind regards, Paul.