Dubbuging

[Jennifer84]

I wonder. When you are in dubbingmode and develop you program you refer to ifstream like in the code below.

ifstream OneFile("Text.txt");

"Text.text" is in the folder debug. Later when the application is finished. I want the file "Text.txt" to be in a folder like this: C:\NewApplication\FileFolder\Text.txt

How am I going to do when I develop my program because the access later will be this directory.
Does this meen that I will change this later when the application is finished ?
Is it possible and correct to write:

ifstream OneFile("C:\NewApplication\FileFolder\Text.txt");

[Narue]

>Does this meen that I will change this later when the application is finished ?
Yes and no. When you run your application outside of the debugger (assuming you're using an IDE), a relative path will probably use the current working directory to look for files. Assuming you can make sure that the current working directory is "C:\NewApplication\FileFolder", you don't need to change the code at all.

If you can't set the current working directory, you'll need to store a debug path and a release path for the file somewhere, and use it conditionally. For example:

#define DEBUG_PATH "Text.txt"
#define RELEASE_PATH "C:\\NewApplication\\FileFolder\\Text.txt"

#ifdef DEBUG_MODE
#define TEXT_PATH DEBUG_PATH
#else
#define TEXT_PATH RELEASE_PATH
#endif

ifstream OneFile ( TEXT_PATH );

Then when you compile, define DEBUG_MODE (or not), and everything will magically work.

[Jennifer84]

Thank you, that is a wonderful solution.
One thing more I wonder about is. Now my poject is under this
search Directory(debugmode)

C:\Documents and Settings\Andreassss\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008
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Is it possible to change this to only c:\MyApplication and put my project here instead ?

Is there any setting for this.

Thank you...

>Does this meen that I will change this later when the application is finished ?
Yes and no. When you run your application outside of the debugger (assuming you're using an IDE), a relative path will probably use the current working directory to look for files. Assuming you can make sure that the current working directory is "C:\NewApplication\FileFolder", you don't need to change the code at all.

If you can't set the current working directory, you'll need to store a debug path and a release path for the file somewhere, and use it conditionally. For example:

#define DEBUG_PATH "Text.txt"
#define RELEASE_PATH "C:\\NewApplication\\FileFolder\\Text.txt"

#ifdef DEBUG_MODE
#define TEXT_PATH DEBUG_PATH
#else
#define TEXT_PATH RELEASE_PATH
#endif

ifstream OneFile ( TEXT_PATH );

Then when you compile, define DEBUG_MODE (or not), and everything will magically work.

[Narue]

>Is it possible to change this to only c:\MyApplication and put my project here instead ?
Sure, but it might not have the effect you want.

[Roebuc]

I notice you keep typing the path with only one backslash between folders. This was a problem I was having recently, remember in quotes and using backslashes you have to use two backslashes or "\\". The same is true for a quote mark inside quotes, "\"" or \". You probably know that already I just noticed though whenever you post you don't do it.

[Jennifer84]

yes I know about the two \\. Just didn´t write it out.

I am not sure if I understood if it is possible to change so I can have my debugfolder under c:\\
why I want to do this is because this application will always be changed so I will be working in C++ and remodify a piece of code all the time so to have this debugfolder under c:\ would be easy. The application will always be in a debugmode but it will be easy because then I can start to define all my searchways to c:\\

Is this possible to just move this debugfolder to c:\\ and debug it here all the time ?
Is there any searchway you can change in C++ to make that work.

Thanks

I notice you keep typing the path with only one backslash between folders. This was a problem I was having recently, remember in quotes and using backslashes you have to use two backslashes or "\\". The same is true for a quote mark inside quotes, "\"" or \". You probably know that already I just noticed though whenever you post you don't do it.

[Narue]

>Is this possible to just move this debugfolder to c:\\ and debug it here all the time ?
>Is there any searchway you can change in C++ to make that work.
You're getting into questions that can't be answered without knowing what compiler you're using.

[Jennifer84]

Yes ofcourse. I use Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition and I am doing a Windows Form Application.

>Is this possible to just move this debugfolder to c:\\ and debug it here all the time ?
>Is there any searchway you can change in C++ to make that work.
You're getting into questions that can't be answered without knowing what compiler you're using.

[Narue]

In your project properties you can change the output directory. See if that does what you were expecting.

[Jennifer84]

Wonderful again. That seemed to work great. I could change the outputdirectory to c:\\MyApplication and the changes made were changed to this directory.

Thank You...

In your project properties you can change the output directory. See if that does what you were expecting.