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Salt and Onion
loading file path with app export
Oct 30th, 2006, 11:57am  
I'm exporting an app with a preference file that I load data from everytime the program starts.  I also save to the same file afterwards.  The file is located in the code's subfolder of data/preference.txt  and in the code, i call loadStrings("data/preference.txt") to load the data.  and save is the same.  ok, but when I export the app as an application, I save to a data folder with the files alright, but it's loading the text file from another source.  i'm assuming it's packaged in with the content (i'm using a mac btw) but is there a way to undo that? like ../ syntax or somehow load a file that's in the directory the application is in and not within itself?

-j
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JohnG
Re: loading file path with app export
Reply #1 - Oct 30th, 2006, 2:00pm  
I think there is String dataPath(String file) and String sketchPath(String file); which poin tto the data dir, and the sketch dir respectively, so sketchPath("preference.txt"); woudl return a string that you can pass to the file functions.
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fry
Re: loading file path with app export
Reply #2 - Oct 30th, 2006, 3:04pm  
some additional info under the.. 5th? item in this section:
http://processing.org/reference/troubleshooting/index.html#issues

depending on how much effort you want to put in, Java has a "preferences" API that you could also use.
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