Re: [Adobe-source-devel] Finding resources

[Robert D. <rcd...@gm...>]

So I found out that adobe::find_resource() is being used to try to find
glossary.xstr. However, it only uses the root_path() for searching, which
isn't very flexible at all. How about making this function check a few more
places, in particular the working directory. Also, it would be a nice
feature to be able to specify a list of resource directories at the command
line for the begin app and have those be used for searching for resources,
amongst other obvious paths.
Doing this will prevent me from having to copy files around via CMake to
ensure that resources can be found. I can make these changes myself, if you
guys think it would be a good idea. I'm leaning more towards the
command-line parameter approach for specifying resource directories.

Another comment: The root_path() is basically a singleton, and not thread
safe at all. It would be ideal to make
resource "hints" a concept, possibly create a new class called
ResourceRepository, which can be given directory hints (where to find
resources) and can be used to obtain resources.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Robert Dailey <rcd...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello,
> So I've got the Begin app compiling and linking under CMake, however it
> cannot find resources during the loading process. I pointed the working
> directory in Visual Studio to the begin/resources directory, but this does
> not seem to help. I tried referencing the bjam scripts as well, but since I
> am not familiar with bjam I had trouble finding anything helpful.
>
> Can anyone give me some pointers? It is trying to find *glossary.xstr*.
>