Difference in execution between IDE and EXE

drahneir · Post by **drahneir** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:19 pm

Hello,

in my application I printout some data from a database on a printer. Additionally there are 2 images which should also be printed.
When I run the exe file, evererything is printed except the images. When I start the program from the IDE, all inclusive the images is printed.

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     UseTIFFImageDecoder()
     LoadImage(#Image_0, "XXX.tif")
     LoadImage(#Image_1, "YYY.tif")
     .
     ResizeImage(#Image_0, 120, 280)
     ResizeImage(#Image_1, 200, 200)
     .
     DrawImage(ImageID(#Image_0), x0, y0)
     DrawImage(ImageID(#Image_1), x1, y1)

What is the reason for this different behaviour?

Regards

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:32 pm

Maybe the images can't be loaded if the current directory is different?

Post by **Fred** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:33 pm

Any chance to have a small working snippet showing the problem ?

omit59 · Post by **omit59** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:47 pm

@drahneir

I had same of kind problem today, dont know if it has got anything to do with yours?

My program (made with PB) was moved to another computer which has NT4 system, and at the same time printing pictures was stopped, everything else prints ok, just pictures are missing.

Tried using drawimage and API StretchBlt, but neither prints pictures.
I have no idea what to do...

So anybody any tips?

Timo

drahneir · Post by **drahneir** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:36 pm

Hello,

@ Trond: the PB files, the .exe file and the images are all in the same directory.

@ Fred: I will see, what I can do.

drahneir · Post by **drahneir** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:55 pm

Gentlemen,

the problem isn't a problem any more. Thanks Trond, who mentioned the directory, I put in the full path of the image files into the LoadImage() commands, and now it works as it should do.
I didn' put in the full path before, because it is somewhat lengthy and, as I wrote before, it worked when I tested it from the IDE.
Thanks for your help.

Regards

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:56 pm

drahneir wrote:Hello,
@ Trond: the PB files, the .exe file and the images are all in the same directory.

Exactly. The current directory has nothing to do with the executable directory. It could be something completely different, and then loading the images will fail, because all paths are relative to the current directory (not the exe directory).

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:08 pm

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GetPathPart(ProgramFilename())

or API GetModuleFileName works only with the exe, not in the IDE.
If you only compile in the IDE (no exe-creation) you should use this:

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GetCurrentDirectory()

The PBCompiler sets the correkt Path for this function.