On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:19 AM, lostgallifreyan
<lostgallifre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This appears with both the older and latest wxLua, and might even be native
> to Lua, but I don't think so.
>
> If I open a data file in the same location as the script, bitmaps for toolbar
> buttons in a subdirectory are found, if I open a data file elsewhere, they
> are not! That means that the data file path, not the script file path, is
> being assumed to be the working directory, which is definitely odd. (This is
> my best assumption anyway, I don't know how to prove it because if I ask it
> to print the path, it just prints what I told it, not the expanded path it
> tried to use).
>
> Normally I could do this:
> PATH="./Bitmaps/"
>
> But for now I have to do this to force wxLua to look at the right path to
> chose as working directory:
> PATH=string.gsub(arg[0],"^(.+[/\\]).+$","%1").."Bitmaps/"
>
> It works, but it's a clumsy method. At least it's portable, it accepts
> non-Windows path separators...
This is a typical problem of finding where a program's external
resources are and is not unique to wxLua or Lua. The way you do it is
pretty a pretty standard way. You may want to create a shortcut to
your app and set the "Start In" path to the directory of the program
and its resources.
Regards,
John Labenski
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