[.net] Cutting Down Code

What do you mean by "stores the filename"?

~Graham

ok lets say Im calling:

backsurface = New Surface("C:\Documents and Settings\ROBERT\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\DirectXProg\Background.bmp", sdesc, dddevice)

how would I go about making a seperate class that would call the long file name??
in escence I would like to do this:

backsurface = New Surface("callimage\background.bmp", sdesc, dddevice)

I know Ive done this b4 but need to be pointed in the right direction

The easiest way to go about this is to keep a base path to the directory that containbs your resources and simply add it to the offset path for the resource of interest.

string base = @"C:\Documents and Settings\ROBERT\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\DirectXProg\";
backsurface = New Surface(base+"Background.bmp", sdesc, dddevice);

wow that was wwaayy easier then I thought.... I did a old application in which I was using streamreader and streamwriter(or something like that) and had a whole diff class setup to perform the process. thanx

You should take into account that not every person who runs your application will have the program at "C:\Documents and Settings\ROBERT\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\DirectXProg". You should try out Application.ExecutablePath or Application.StartupPath instead.

To my knowledge, Managed DirectX uses relative path names from the executable directory (if that's what you're using).

RobLoach is right, Application.StartupPath + "\\" + YourFileName is the best approach to use for this.

~Graham

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Original post by gwihlidal Application.StartupPath + "\\" + YourFileName

Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, YourFileName);

Yes, that is a more efficient way, no temporary variable is needed. :)

~Graham

Gah, I'm tired, I read that as String.Concat for some reason. Oops!

Consider embedding the sprites as resources, though. You can do that in Visual Studio by adding them to your project and setting "Build Action" in the file's properties to "Embedded Resource".

You can then retrieve them at runtime as a Stream:

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Original post by Anonymous Poster Quote: Original post by gwihlidal Yes, that is a more efficient way, no temporary variable is needed. :) ~Graham I think he meant, "that's the cross platform way."

Not so much that, as the fact that you don't have to think about whether the directory path ends with a director separator or not.