Re: [Triplea-develop] Path names change

[Lane S. <dow...@gm...>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:42:06 -0500, NeKromancer <nek...@co...> wrote:
> I have added Thomas Matthijs's fix for TripleA's path name when finding
> the Root folder for triplea (GameRunner.java)
> 
> I as well started changing the path names around in triplea. I took the
> idea from Thomas Matthijs again to have TripleA look for a path relative
> to the package name ie. /games/strategy/ ...etc  I put the fully
> qualified map directory path in Constants.java along with a constant for
> a file separator ie. "/" or "\" if on windows.. handled by Java VM for
> platform independency or something.
> 
> It all works except for the Map Skins selection code. I tried to mess
> with it, but it keeps throwing a null when trying to get a directory
> listing (TripleAFrame.java)..
> 
> Currently the source is like so:
> 
> final File mapsDir = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir") +
> "/../classes/" + Constants.MAP_DIR);
> 
> Ideally I want it to use the Constants.MAP_DIR alone without depending
> on the "user.dir" and the "/../classes/"
> 
> The MAP_DIR = /games/strategy/triplea/image/images/maps/
> 
> This won't have any problems with people who install triplea out of the
> box.. but will for people who install triplea via a Gentoo ebuild or any
> package that places the binaries else where.
> 
> --
> NeKromancer (also known as George)
> nek...@co...

Hi there. I'm glad to hear that you're looking at the path issues. I
recently started tinkering around with triplea, and I had to tweak the
path definition (don't remember which file off the top of my head) to
get it to work properly inside Eclipse.

Lane

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