Stupid Linux Question...

[lethe]

hi
when you want to use the icon to start a compiled irrlicht example your have to change your working directory so that the bin can find the meshes and textures to include. Or in another way, you can define your meshes with an absolute not an relative path.

greets

lethe

[disanti]

How can I set the working directory? I feel stupid...
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[Unarekin]

something like:
device->getFileSystem()->changeWorkingDirectoryTo(directory);
should do ya.

[xhrit]

>Shouldn't Niko make the engine able to load meshes if run from the X-Server instead of the Konsole?

hmmm, it also seems textures are not loaded when the engine is started from konqueror. Does anyone know why this is?

[disanti]

Another one of my old and embarrissing posts brought up! Lol, anyway, I found a solution to this:

Put this function somewhere in your code:

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/*getLastSpecifiedCharFromString*/
int getLastSpecifiedCharFromString(char* string, int character)
{
	int last = 0, num = 0;
	while(*string != 0x00)
	{
		if(*string == (char)character)
		{
			last = num;
		}
		num++;
		string++;
	}
	return last;
}

Put this where you want to load a file:

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//linux is tricky, we have to make sure Irrlicht knows the path to the file
char path[MAX_PATH];
memset(path, 0x00, sizeof(path));
path = argv[0];
int placeoffilename = getLastSpecifiedCharFromString(path, 0x2F);
memmove(path+placeoffilename,"thefile.zip",8);
window->device->getFileSystem()->addZipFileArchive(path, true, true);

I just wrote this code yesterday and havn't actually tested it so if someone could test it for me it would be WONDERFUL! Thanks~ John DiSanti
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