Re: currentDirectoryPath does not work
Re: currentDirectoryPath does not work
- Subject: Re: currentDirectoryPath does not work
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:19:18 -0500
Not a bug; the current directory in a Finder-launched application is
"/". The "current working directory," is a shorthand construct for the
convenience of a user working at a terminal; the Finder, a multi-window
UI that displays several directory contexts at once, doesn't
intelligibly have a single working directory.
NSBundle provides the canonical way to, well, bundle files with an
application. See, for instance, [[NSBundle mainBundle] executablePath].
-- F
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 12:57 PM, James Ludtke wrote:
I am trying to read and write from my application to a file that is in
the
same folder as my application. because I can not be certain where a
user may
put the folder, I do not know the absolute path. The following code
works
when I run my application from within the Project Builder, but fails
when I
run the compiled application. The compiled application reads from and
writes
to root. This includes the application in the build folder.
myPath = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] currentDirectoryPath];
myFile = @"dsf.txt";
myFilePath = [myPath stringByAppendingPathComponent: myFile];
myStatusString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile: myFilePath];
I also tried the Unix relative path method, e.g,
myPath = @"./"
This also works from within Project Builder but again fails from the
compiled application.
Is this a bug in Cocoa, or what am I doing wrong?
--
Fritz Anderson - Consulting Programmer - Chicago, IL
Mail: <email@hidden>
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