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DieTapete YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Global data directory? Jan 22nd, 2010, 2:43am   Hi, just wanted to know if there is the possibility to copy my data into a global data directory so that i do not need to copy my music files into each sketch. I work with .wav files and i don't want to waste too much space on my hard disk.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Global data directory? Reply #1 - Jan 22nd, 2010, 4:45am   Just put an absolute path where Processing wants a file name: final String PATH = "E:/Documents/Processing data/"; PImage img = loadImage(PATH + "pict.png"); loadAndPlay(PATH + "Everybody has something to hide except me and my monkey.mp3"); and so on.

DieTapete YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Re: Global data directory? Reply #2 - Jan 22nd, 2010, 2:08pm   Oh, could have thought of that myself.. Thanks!