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nikhan
loading textures from relative directory?
Apr 21st, 2007, 9:37pm  
So I'm using JOGL with Processing and right now the only way I can load textures is if I specify the entire directory path. Like:
/Users/name/Documents/Processing/MyOpenGLApp/data
in the code.

I would like to somehow make a relative reference to the /data directory, as when I compile everything into a .jar it can't load the textures because it doesn't look in the right place. If I tell my program to load textures from "/data/*" it doesn't work, nor does "data/*" nor does "../data/*" or "../../data/*"

So essentially, I have no idea as to how to reference textures that are bundled in the same JAR file. Any help would be appreciated.
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JohnG
Re: loading textures from relative directory?
Reply #1 - Apr 22nd, 2007, 1:35pm  
try: passing dataPath("myile.jpg") to the load function.
dataPath automatically appends the location of the data directoryso it loads from the right place.
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