Relative Paths in Property Inspector

[Brian Milby]

So the ask is for a check box in the PI (near the source field with a label
like “Relative path”)? And when checked, the PI would automatically trim
the path to be relative to the stack file (probably with the assumption
that it only goes down the hierarchy).

Or are you asking for a preference that would default to relative path
names when choosing files in the PI?

I think I know the behavior script that would need to trim the file name
(for images). Not quite sure how to get the path of the stack file in that
context yet.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 8:02 PM Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> it is related.  As soon as I saw your post I said "gee, that looks
> familiar".
>
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via
> use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > Backstory:
> >
> > Sometime back in a round with HQ we got the engine to "remember" relative
> > path settings for the filenames of images/players etc.. such that it
> would
> > not default to full path from root on the drive which makes the path
> unique
> > to that user and no longer portable… so "relativity" go supported/sticky
> in
> > different dev scenarios…
> >
> > so far so good… if you set the filename in an image in a stack that lives
> > here:
> >
> > User/MyDrive/myProject/coolAnimals.livecode
> >
> > with images here to:
> >
> > User/MyDrive/myProject/img/thumbs/little-rooster.jpg
> >
> > # it, obviously works But, now you can
> >
> > a) manually chop of the lead down to this in the property inspector
> >
> > img/thumbs/little-rooster.jpg
> >
> > # and it works… this is also portable if you include "img/*" in the
> > stackfiles when create your standalone and the filename is saved relative
> > to the stack, and, assuming you keep the folder structure intact you
> don't
> > have to even mess with defaultfolder or even specialFolderPath("engine")
> > because the "relativity" of the path is respected in any and all contexts
> > (I think…)
> >
> > so you can also programatically do this
> >
> > set the filename of img "myPet" to "img/thumbs/little-rooster.jpg"
> >
> > and that also works  though you do need to use "specialFolderPath"
> > functions on mobile.
> >
> > Again, so far so good…
> >
> > End backstory (please correct anything you see that is wrong)
> >
> > So, why can't we just a relative path in the Property Inspector itself?
> > The browser tool will always return full path from User down to the
> > "asset.jpg"… if I send that stack to someone else, or use a GIT work flow
> > where these stacks are "pure views" (i.e. no actual imported images
> > anywhere)  along with the images. the paths are broken.  So, long way of
> > asking:
> >
> > Do we need an enhancement request for a check box in the PI to set the
> > path as relative to the stack? Seems like that would be super usefu
> >
> > Mikey has this request in since May '16… which feels related
> >
> > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17705
> >
> > but the suggestion for having this in the PI seems a bit different, and
> > might not actually solve his issue for using a cloud instance of his
> > project.
> >
> > Brahmanathaswami
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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