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working directory constantly changing?

billybob · 2004-01-23T08:30:46

I have been having serious trouble with file management throughout all the time working on my game. what seems to be happening is files are loaded/saved into a directory, then all files attempting to use relative directories use that has their working directory. for example, I open/save my Config.ini file without any directory information. because of this, my ini file gets deposited anywhere a file has been opened/saved last. surely, there is a way to prevent the working directory from changing like this?

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Started by billybob January 22, 2004 07:59 PM

11 comments, last by billybob 20 years, 3 months ago

billybob

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January 22, 2004 11:22 PM

That will work sometimes, but not if I use ..\ (not a problem, but it would be nice to have). I''d like to know why this happens, AFAIK, most people don''t have this problem.

Endurion

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January 23, 2004 06:27 AM

Because most people will simply getmodulefilename once and build full paths from there. The safest method ever.
If you insist on having ..\ you could always use a path class that will concatenate strings for you to build a qualified path string from that.

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Extrarius

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January 23, 2004 08:30 AM

Using ..\ in a path is allowed, so just copying the apps path before the filename should work.
"C:\windows\..\autoexec.bat" for example will refer to "C:\autoexec.bat", and the conversion will be handled by the OS

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