Re: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard 0.8 issues (was Re: #pythoncard irc channel on freenode)

[Steven D'A. <st...@cy...>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:32:57PM +0100, XXXXXXXXXXX wrote:

> 3) Image path - this follows on from an observation I made recently. When
> you select an image in the background dialog you can use the file browser
> to track it down, but in the resource file the path is never stored and
> therefore the image fails to load unless it's in the same directory as
> the resource file.
> 
> Now why you'd want to locate the image somewhere other than the current
> directory I couldn't say...

Easy: if you have more than, oh, half a dozen images in your application,
you probably want to dump them all in an image subdirectory rather than
clutter up your main directory.

Or, if you want to implement something like skins, one set of images to a
directory.



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