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anna_banana YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	load files at runtime? Apr 8th, 2009, 2:12pm   i want to create a stand-alone application (not applet) that loads a data file at runtime. is it possible to get around the pre-built executables baking in the current content of the file, and instead have it load at runtime?
	« Last Edit: Apr 13th, 2009, 6:53pm by anna_banana »

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: load files at runtime? Reply #1 - Apr 8th, 2009, 2:48pm   Yes.

anna_banana YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	Re: load files at runtime? Reply #2 - Apr 13th, 2009, 6:52pm   can you tell me how you do this?

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: load files at runtime? Reply #3 - Apr 13th, 2009, 11:13pm   All the functions taking a file (by default in data folder) can be feed with a full path, which can be obtained from a JFileChooser, for example.