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binarymillenium
Get directory of current sketch?
Dec 16th, 2008, 5:01pm  
I want to access data stored in a folder relative to my current sketch, but I'm having trouble.

Some processing functions like PImage automatically operate in the local sketch directory, but doing something like
dir = new File(folderName);
files = dir.list();
requires an absolute path for folderName.  

System.getProperty("user.dir") will get me the directory Processing is running in, but that is nowhere near where my sketches are.  

In the dev.processing reference area I see there is a Sketch class that has a getCodeFolder() function, is there a way to access Sketch from inside my sketch?
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JohnG
Re: Get directory of current sketch?
Reply #1 - Dec 16th, 2008, 5:31pm  
sketchPath(""); will give you the path to the sketch, dataPath(""); will give you the path to the data directory.

You can put things into the method to give a file, e.g. sketchPath("foo.txt"); will give you the path to a file called "foo.txt" in the sketch directory.
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