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File Access via exe Location

Hi,

I'm making a simple tile based game so have many different images as the tiles, at the moment i am simply adding them all by typing in the full path location of each image into my code but want to make an editor which will save the location into a string. But because if i save the full path, once the game is run on another machine the full path's will be different, so had the idea of saving the locations of the images in relation to the location of the executable.

For example if my structure was as follows
/game
/game/images
/game/executables

Is it possible to save the location of the images as game/images so it doesn't matter where the game folder is on the hardrive it will allways go up one level then into the images folder to loacte my tile images?!

Thanks for Help

Pierre Cornelius

use ExtractFilePath and PAramStr functions. like this:

ExePath:= ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0));
ImagePath:= GamePath + 'images\';

regards
Pierre

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Hi thanks for quick reponse.

I get the exePath bit but what is 'GamePath' is that a variable!? Thats the furthest up directory isn't it, but where is it coming from?

Cheers
James

RickJ

Use the following as an example
var ThisDir : String ;

ThisDir := ExtractFilePath(Application.Exename) + 'games/images'

RickJ

Oops sorry PierreC,
I did not see your post.
I was too slow....

PierreC gets the points.

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Thanks for quick help
James

Pierre Cornelius

Sorry, GamePath Should have been ExePath.

My first example will be fine with the following dir structure

c:\game {exe goes here}
c:\game\images

if you prefer the following dir structure, rather use relative path in loadfromfile:
c:\game
c:\game\exe
c:\game\images