On 23 Jun 2000, at 13:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Just a question: when the user's download the lessons from the Web, how do
> you guarantee they put them in the right directory without renaming the
> file?
>
>
> If you use relative paths, you can find subfolders even if the user
> renames or moves the parent. If you need to find a subfolder "Lesson
> Data" you should be able to use something like "./Lesson Data/" instead of
> "My Hard Disk/Bunch of applications/School stuff/LetterPress
> Software/Lesson Data/" (or whatever weird and tortured folder names the
> user chooses to use, and believe me, I've seen some bizarre examples!).
The application *is* using relative paths to launch the lessons.
The question I posed is how the INSTALLER program for a lesson can know
where to copy the files to. They can install the launcher anywhere they want.
Leston Drake
LetterPress Software, Inc.
http://www.lpsoftware.com
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