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Loading images from subfolder of Resources
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Loading images from subfolder of Resources


  • Subject: Loading images from subfolder of Resources
  • From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:34:50 -0600

Up until today, all my images (mostly PDF, but some TIFF) were placed directly into the Resources folder of my app bundle. I used NSBundle's pathForResource:ofType: to obtain the path of an image which I then fed into NSImage's initWithContentsOfFile:.

I'm now creating an "image factory" object that will be able to load images from different subfolders within Resources. I started out by setting up my project to place an Images folder within Resources and then have all my images reside in Images. That was the easy part.

I then looked at using NSBundle's pathForResource:ofType:inDirectory:

NSString* theImagePath = [NSBundle pathForResource:aName ofType:nil
inDirectory:[[aBundle resourcePath] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Images"]];


where aName is the root name of some image and aBundle is usually the result of [NSBundle mainBundle].

However, theImagePath is always nil.

I must be misusing this API. I also could not find any code examples. The docs just say that the directory must be a valid path or nil. FWIW, I also tried using an absolute path for the inDirectory parameter, but still got a nil result.

Am I able to use this API to effectively load resources from a subfolder of Resources? Note that in my case, I don't want to specify an extension because my images will ultimately be in many formats. This is why I'm not building up paths directly to the images; I don't know their extension.
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