| Re: Provinding files for VM-Application [message #61840 is a reply to message #61826] |
Fri, 08 August 2008 07:15   |
wengi
Messages: 12
Registered: February 2008
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On 8 Aug., 15:22, Vince Hradil <hrad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 7:10 am, wengi <andreas.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 8 Aug., 14:03, Bob Crawford <Snowma...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 8, 7:51 am, wengi <andreas.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Hi there,
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>>>> I'm currently coding a project for a colleague. Unfortunately I have
>>>> to build the application for the VM because the colleague does not
>>>> have an IDL-license.
>>>> The project needs some kind of dummy-files to read some information
>>>> from. Using the idlde I have the opportunity to provide these files, I
>>>> think. I just put the file in the "data-folder" of the project. Later
>>>> on I want to open the file with openr.
>>>> While testing the application on a VM I always run into a "file-not-
>>>> found" error. I have no idea in which way I have to specify the path
>>>> to the file in the source-code.
>>>> I tried:
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>>>> hname = '\data\header.ima'
>>>> hname = '\header.ima'
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>>>> and then
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>>>> openr,unit,hname,/get_lun
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>>>> Always running into the "file-not-found" error. So where can I find my
>>>> provided files after having built the project? Any idea would be
>>>> appreciated.
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>>>> Regards,
>>>> Andreas
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>>> no experience (yet) with the VM, but have you tried
>>> hname = 'data\header.ima'
>>> or
>>> hname = 'header.ima'
>>> with the file in the same dir as the VM executable (or a data subdir)?
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>> I tried both hnames. The file is "inside" the project. It is not
>> explicitly saved on the other machine. I hoped not to have to do this.
>> When creating the project one has the opportunity to include files of
>> other types than sourcode files. I hoped that it would be possible
>> that the files will then be available on the other machine.
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> You WILL have to copy the file to the other machine. How else would
> the vm find it? I suppose you could read the file in, encode it
> somehow into a variable then use that encoding as a hard coded
> variable in the sav file (hard to describe) - but that seems like a
> lot of hard work. Why can't you just make the file available to the
> vm?
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> Maybe the better question is - what do you need the "dummy" file for?
> Can this be changed to, say, a template or an anonymous structure,
> etc. Something that can be coded into idl and not have to be read
> from the file system...
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> Just a thought.
I think it would be no problem to copy it. I just thought that with
packing it into the project I can build a bundle for the colleague
which provides him all he needs. But I will see...
Thanks for that thought.
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