On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:08:01 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:09:04 +0200, Christopher Howard wrote:

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I'm coding a resource tracker for a game that loads images, sounds, etc. from files, and wondering how the program will know where the files are located on the installation system. (With C/C++ programs I usually had the build system hardcode the appropriate share/ directory into the config.h file.) Assuming I package for cabal distribution, what approaches to this problem are available to me?

You can find an example in wxAsteroids[0], look at the main function.

Another example can be found in the FRP version of wxAsteroids[1], e.g.: rock = bitmap $ getDataFile "rock.ico" Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl [1] https://github.com/HeinrichApfelmus/reactive-banana/blob/master/reactive-ban... -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html Haskell programming --