Images problem

[Visually Seen #]

Hey everybody,

I'm doing a project called Science Talent Search, where I had to
research about a topic in which I chose nuclear energy. I chose to
present this as a computer program, and I decided to use C#.

The main problem is: I'm using a bit of animation, by changing the
location of the image file.

Now, the image files are located in a certain directory (let's say
C:\Documents and Settings), so if I ran it on another computer, the
program would not be able to get the write image file, since the
computer wouldn't have the image files in C:\Documents and Settings.

This is a problem especially because on Saturday 9:30 AM Australian
Eastern Standard Time, I have to present this program to 2 judges, and
they will want to be able to run it on their computer.

Could anyone help? (Is there a better way than putting all the image
files in a certain directory, then telling the user to firstly transfer
them into the right directory, before running the program?)

Thanks if you do,

Seen Sharp

[Jeffrey]

How do you plan to deploy the program, itself to the judges? XCopy to their
computer, or have them map to a shared folder across a network? Are you
going to eMail it to them and have them copy to their local machine, perhaps
to the desktop?

If they can get to the exe (it is a Windows App - yes?), then why not have
the images deployed in the same folder as the exe? Then you can use
System.IO.Direc tory.GetCurrent Directory() to programmaticall y determine the
exact folder in which the exe is running.... So, if you tell the judges to
copy the exe and all supporting images to one location, everything will
work.

-HTH

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Hey everybody,

I'm doing a project called Science Talent Search, where I had to
research about a topic in which I chose nuclear energy. I chose to
present this as a computer program, and I decided to use C#.

The main problem is: I'm using a bit of animation, by changing the
location of the image file.

Now, the image files are located in a certain directory (let's say
C:\Documents and Settings), so if I ran it on another computer, the
program would not be able to get the write image file, since the
computer wouldn't have the image files in C:\Documents and Settings.

This is a problem especially because on Saturday 9:30 AM Australian
Eastern Standard Time, I have to present this program to 2 judges, and
they will want to be able to run it on their computer.

Could anyone help? (Is there a better way than putting all the image
files in a certain directory, then telling the user to firstly transfer
them into the right directory, before running the program?)

Thanks if you do,

Seen Sharp

[Dom]

Are the computers on a network?
Could you put them in a network folder where everyone has access and
specify the path in UNC notation

\\<servername>\ path

Otherwise, you could make a setup program and deploy the image files
together with the application (easiest would be into the application
dir).

Hope this helps.
Dom