Installation Build Question

[Sterling7]

This is the kind of question that I could probably resolve for myself after about twenty false-starts and several hours of wasted time, but I'm really hoping someone can provide me an answer and save me some trouble.

My game is made up of five executables, all of which call on various video files and each other, terminating themselves after they open the new executable and passing information back and forth with the .INI file. (It's a little clumsy, but it works.) But when I build as an application, I get a long string of warnings about how the files aren't in the appropriate directories which may prevent the program(s) from working on a different computer.

So... How exactly do I set up a directory with the appropriate files in the appropriate places, and which command should I use to make sure that when the execuatables "start" each other, they're looking in the right place? (Fixed pathname, evaluated pathname...?)

[LB]

Always use evaluated pathname if you plan to distribute your app. This means that for file browsers you click the expression button, and when possible use the evaluated expression events.

To get a file that is in the same directory as your app, you can type one of the following into the expression editor.

This is the preferred method:

AppPath$+"MyFileName.exe"

The AppPath$ expression can be retrieved from the Special Object (two computers) or typed in directly.

This is an alternative method and should only be used in places where the AppPath$ expression cannot be used:

".\MyFileName.exe"

[Sterling7]

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

[Obliivious]

Hey, I don't know how to use this evaluated pathname. I tried using ".\MyFileName.exe", but I got an error message that says syntax error. Any advice?

[nivram]

Maybe...apppath$+"myfilename.exe"

Marv

[Dynasoft]

Hey, I don't know how to use this evaluated pathname. I tried using ".\MyFileName.exe", but I got an error message that says syntax error. Any advice?

You left off the quotes. Don't.