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I'm having trouble opening files in the resource folder with one of my C++ programs.

I have it compiled and all of the resources where included in the resource fork of the app, but when I try to reference them by name, say I have a file called sample.txt and so if I use fopen( "sample.txt" ), or a like command to open files, it doesn't read the data and just returns NULL.

It does open it if I use the entire system path such as fopen( "/Users/damitrious/Desktop/blah/blah" ).
But this is terribly unconvenient being that I don't want to specify a directory to install the app in.

So is there any way to make teh compiler look in the resource directory where it should look, or am I missing something?

I'm not sure about the compiler options, but you should be able to use a relative path to the resource. Note that the path is relative to the your programs binary – the relative path should be something like ../Resources/sample.txt

Cocoa has a class for working with the contents of a bundle called NSBundle which would usually be used for this kind of thing.

Give that a go, hope it helps .

Mark.

So I got around to finding where the error was with Debugger and it seems it is unable to access the memory.

I am not a Cocoa person yet, though I intend to get to it in the summer, so I am using a library that hides the underbelly of Cocoa.

This is what came up in the Debugger, and if anyone can tell me anything about it, that would be great.

I can't tell you what the Message means exactly however it seems to have received a keyboard interrupt (Ctrl-C).

If you’re using the Carbon then you should have access to CFBundle - the Carbon version of Cocoa's NSBundle. This is located in the Core Foundation framework.

Really not sure why the relative path didn't work though .

Mark.

Hmmm that is odd.

I know this is probably not useful, but it looks like project builder is putting the file in the correct place and is referenceing it correctly.

When I open up one of the base files, namely the "username.pbxuser" I find the lines:

• 
  002C935807C7076900085DB3 = {
  isa = PBXFileReference;
  name = sample.txt;
  path = /Users/damitrious/Desktop/RevengeofSphere/build/RevengeofSphere.app/Contents/Resources/sample.txt;
  refType = 0;
  };

I think it is probably the library that I am using, and I am going to download the newest version, see if that helps any.

Thanks for the effort netytan.

No problems Jose, I would suggest you take a closer look at the Carbon framework for developing Mac applications. This is written in C so it doesn't use OOP per say but from what I've read it's pretty nice to work with .

What framework are you using now anyway?

Mark.

I'm using the allegro game library, that uses cocoa as the underlying code. I just use it because it allows me to write code for Mac, Win, Linux, Unix, etc. without changing a word.

I noticed there was a new version today, so I will dl it now; see if it fixes the problem.

Nope didn't seem to help, well for now, I'll just have to put all my resources in the Library/Application Support/ folder.

This really wasn't the way I wanted to do it.