Re: [pygame] image-loading path

["Paul Pigg" <masterpigg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh yeah, forgot about mentioning that - I just used the OP example, but if you want cross-platform support, that is definately the way to go. :)

--p

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:04 AM, DR0ID <dr0id@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

btw, I would use os.path.join(...) to join your path (because /home/users/... might look different on different platforms e.g. \home\users\... ).

Usage:
p = os.path.join('home', 'users', ...)

~DR0ID


Paul Pigg schrieb:

I would use os.path.abspath() to see if the path you think you are passing is what is actually being passed.
e.g.,

import os, pygame

p = os.path.abspath("../images/image.png")
print p
pygame.image.load(p)


--p

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Dan Krol <orblivion@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:orblivion@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

   Lets say you have:

   /home/user/project/
   /home/user/project/images
   /home/user/project/scriptst/game.py

   You say:

   cd /home/user/project/
   python scripts/game.py

   You would want your images referenced as "images/image.png"

   If however, you say:

   cd /home/user/project/scripts
   python game.py

   You would want your images referenced as "../images/image.png"

   In other words, your image path is relative to where you cd to, not
   where game.py is.

   On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Olaf Nowacki <ioa@xxxxxxx

   <mailto:ioa@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
   > can you give an example?
   >
   > 2008/7/14 Forrest Voight <voights@xxxxxxxxx

   <mailto:voights@xxxxxxxxx>>:

   >>
   >> Yes, but the path is relative to where you are running the script
   >> from, not where the script is.
   >>
   >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Olaf Nowacki <ioa@xxxxxxx

   <mailto:ioa@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
   >> > hi everyone,
   >> > is it possible to load an image with pygame.image.load() that
   is not in
   >> > the
   >> > same folder (or a subfolder), but higher up in the file-tree?
   i tried
   >> > giving
   >> > "../data/images/image.png" as argument, but it didn't work.
   >> > here i tried to illustrate what i mean:
   >> > [game]
   >> > |- [engine]
   >> >     |- tools.load_image()
   >> > |- [data]
   >> >     |-[images]
   >> >         |- image.png
   >> > thanks in advance!
   >> > olaf
   >> >
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