File not Found

Dandrolvorn · Post by **Dandrolvorn** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:38 pm

Hello Community

This is my first Entry here, and i want to try some little Experiments with the Irrlicht Engine.

But i have some Problems.

For Example this:

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ITexture texSydney = device.VideoDriver.GetTexture(@"..\..\media\sydney.bmp");

This File in this relative Path is definitly existand, but the programm tell me that he doesn´t found this file. What is wrong?

rooly · Post by **rooly** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:39 pm

this happens to me often. the compiler doesn't like using the '..\..\' stuff, just give the exact location of the file, it should be fine.

Dandrolvorn · Post by **Dandrolvorn** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:56 pm

i`m sorry but this doesn´t work too

rooly · Post by **rooly** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:58 pm

are you using a .NET framework?

Dandrolvorn · Post by **Dandrolvorn** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:01 pm

rooly · Post by **rooly** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:09 pm

hmm, i'm not sure, are you running the example? or are you compiling the program yourself

Dandrolvorn · Post by **Dandrolvorn** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:14 pm

I Build the example and try to run it, and i have changed the relative path´s to the "media" Directory, but it doesn´t work.

rooly · Post by **rooly** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:23 pm

when i said go to exact location, i meant go to its full directory listing:

c:\irrlicht\media\sydney.bmp ->this is just an example, go to your listing

what i think your saying is you just took out the ..\..\ and put

media\sydney.bmp

Dandrolvorn · Post by **Dandrolvorn** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:27 pm

no, sorry

i mean i changed the relative to the absolut Path

rooly · Post by **rooly** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:28 pm

hmm, i dunno then...i looked at the example code, it seems like it should work just fine. of course, i can't compile, i dn't have c# compiler

Baal Cadar · Post by **Baal Cadar** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:09 pm

I don't know dotnet, but C style strings use \ as an escape character to get to special symbols like \t and \n. So if you want a \ in your string you have to escape it too with \\. Try to substitute all \ with \\

gfxstyler · Post by **gfxstyler** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:18 pm

i think just change \ to / will help

Dandrolvorn · Post by **Dandrolvorn** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:56 am

nothing works

i changed my path to D:\Irrlicht\ but it doesn´t work too.

Is here any C#.NET Programmer wo can help me?

Dandrolvorn · Post by **Dandrolvorn** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:32 am

It is soooo great

He says he doesn´t found the file, although the Files are in te Executables Directory and the line looks like

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ITexture texSydney = device.VideoDriver.GetTexture("sydney.bmp");

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:59 am

sounds like your working directory is wrong.. windows messed up my working dir the other day and it took me ages to figure out why nothing would load. try printing your working dir out (using 'cd' with no args)
I killed then ran explorer.exe in task manager, and when I restarted my compiler the problem had vanished.