Patrice's Goldfish on Source Forum

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Mucho tres tres bella Patrice.

I tried launching it from a Graphics program (Gary Barnes' Life) and a text program (ZPost, my variation of Bob Scott's EZ Post) It launched from each (could see it in the taskbar) but never showed up.

code I used

Function Goldfish_Swimmer As Long
  Local tmp_File$, pid As Dword
  tmp_File$ = "Goldfish.exe" & $Nul
  pid??? = Shell(tmp_File$, 1)  
   ?"Launched a goldfish"
End Function

If I launch it from File Explorer or the desktop, it works fine (swimming across the screen as we speak which explains any typos {grin})

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[Chris Boss]

Likely by running it from such programs, the current path (folder) is not being changed to the same folder as the app. The goldfish program is probably simply not finding the image, since it is not found in the same folder it is being run from.

Change the current folder to the same folder as the goldfish app, before attempting to run it.

[Patrice Terrier]

Use the new PB9 EXE.Path$ statement like this:

gsImageFullPathName = EXE.Path$ + "GoldFish.png"

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[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Likely by running it from such programs, the current path (folder) is not being changed to the same folder as the app. The goldfish program is probably simply not finding the image, since it is not found in the same folder it is being run from.

Change the current folder to the same folder as the goldfish app, before attempting to run it.

No that's not it Chris. Goldfish.exe is in the cyrrent folder. I had even tried curdir$ & "\Goldfish.exe" & $Nul.

Goldfish launches (shows icon on Taskbar) from within Life (See Gary Barnes' Life thread) but Goldie does not display.

Patrice:

Use the new PB9 EXE.Path$ statement like this:

gsImageFullPathName = EXE.Path$ + "GoldFish.png"

Cool. I hadn't seen that one yet.

Hmmm... I got it now. The image fiile (Goldfish.png) has to be in the same folder as the exe. I had thought it was imbedded in the .exe ala a resource file or something.

Something engaging about the d*** fish swimming back and forth across the screen. And I know something about fish {grin}.

Thanks guys.

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