How do you maintain image source reference on multiple platforms?

[Tore Nilsen]

You should probably use the specialFolderPath(“resources”) to set the relative path to your images. This should work on all systems.

Tore
> 1. nov. 2016 kl. 15.11 skrev Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> after I got the trick on how to handle multiple image sources for  different
> screen resolutions, I began changing all images in my programs from imported
> images to external references. I created on my development platform windows
> a "resource" folder under my development folder, referenced my images to
> that folder, added all image files to the standalone setting "copy files"
> and set the destination folder for the copy files in the standalone setting
> also to a folder "resources". So far, that works fine now.
> 
> 
> 
> On windows I only create the windows standalone. For the final tests,
> adaptions and creating the standalone for Mac OS, I copy the source stack to
> my Mac. Here comes my issue. All of my images have a windows path as source
> reference, like "C:/myPath/recsources/myImage.png", which obviously doesn't
> work on Mac. I tried to set the image source path to a relative path like
> "/resources/myImage.png", hoping that would catch the image on both
> platforms, but obviously relative paths are not working as image source.
> This would be a clean solution for this issue.
> 
> 
> 
> Since the transport of the source stacks is not a one time thing, but can be
> made quite often in the last steps of the project (to always keep the master
> source on my main dev platform windows), it actually can't be it to change
> manually all image paths each time after moving the stack from one platform
> to the other. Do I oversee anything here, or is the only solution to write a
> script, which runs thru all objects and converts the image paths each time I
> transfer my stacks? If yes, has anybody such a small tool? I fear, I am the
> only one, who is developing on two platforms, otherwise this must have come
> up earlier.
> 
> 
> 
> How do you handle this? Any recommendations welcome
> 
> Tiemo
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