Re: [Boa Constr] absolute vs relative paths

[Riaan B. <riaan@e.co.za>]

Hi Mike,

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> Bill Harris wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to build a standalone executable of the Boa tutorial program
>> Notebook using py2exe. I am running Windows XP Pro.
>>
>> I am running into the problem that the location for the bitmap in the 
>> dialog
>> (wxDialog1) is an absolute path (e.g., c:\dir1\dir2\graphic.bmp). I 
>> need to
>> somehow use a relative path, relative to the directory where the .exe 
>> will
>> be installed.
>>
>> How can I do that?
>>  
>>
> (Shameless plug here.)
> 
> If these are fairly small images, you can use ResourcePackage to store 
> the bitmap in a format that makes it part of the source-code so that you 
> load the image (regardless of py2exe'ing or inclusion of the code in 
> other projects) like so:
> 
>    from mypackage.myresources import my_image_png
>    doSomethingWithBitmap( my_image_png.getBitmap() )
> 
> This is the (rough) equivalent of embedding the image in a "resource" 
> file in a C++ project.  The image is stored in a Python package, updated 
> automatically when you change it during development, and is imported as 
> a normal module, so it gets packed into your py2exe .exe file as part of 
> your source code.
> 
> Some day I suppose I might get time to code a plug-in for Boa that does 
> the (fairly trivial) work of creating the resource package and using it 
> for storage of resources used by the GUI designer, but my time lately 
> for non-core projects is pretty fragmented & rare (anyone who feels like 
> doing it before me, feel free).

You are welcome to add a resourcepackage plug-in for Boa.

Be warned though that when I added the equivalent that wxPython
provides (img2py) it was quite a challenge to have the new image
format properly integrate with all designer image handling.
It might be easier now with the initial groundwork laid out.

Thanks,
Riaan.