ugh directory annoyances

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

How this happens I dont know , why it happens I dont want to know.
So here it goes , I have two shaders , vertshader.vert and fragshader.frag stored in the path src.com.lcass.core.shader, however when I put “src/com/lcass/core/shader/vertshader.vert” I get an error saying it cannot find the class , this has been going on for hours and as you can understand im a bit tepid , by that I mean im about to throw it at the wall.



public void init(){
	shader.attachVertexShader("src/com/lcass/core/shader/vertshader.vert");
	shader.attachFragmentShader("src/com/lcass/core/shader/fragshader.frag");
	shader.link();
	
}

#2

Shouldn’t you have an extra [icode]src/[/icode] in front? I may be wrong but that looks like what’s wrong, because the eclipse root directory is one level up from the src folder and you have a src folder in the src folder.

CopyableCougar4

#3

[I got some stuff wrong here]

#4 
shader.attachVertexShader("src/com/lcass/core/shader/vertshader.vert");
shader.attachFragmentShader("src/com/lcass/core/shader/fragshader.frag");

Should be

shader.attachVertexShader("src/src.com.lcass.core.shader/vertshader.vert");
shader.attachFragmentShader("src/src.com.lcass.core.shader/fragshader.frag");

That should fix the problem.

CopyableCougar4

#5

Try putting a / at the front of the path.

Although without seeing the attach{Vertex,Fragment}Shader() functions there’s not much we can do to help.

#6

My above code snippet fixes any errors AFAIK

CopyableCougar4

#7

Hmm… However, if something is inside “src” its a ressource, part of the classpath and you cannot load it as a file (well, you can, but it will only work in your IDE, not when exported).

If it is a file, not a ressource (which is differently to load then a file), place it outside “src” and remove the “src”.

Although it does not work because its path doesnt start woth “src” but with “bin” in compiled state.

#8

Wait, did you literally call the folder, [icode]src.com.lcass.core.shader[/icode]?

#9

Yeah, he did.

CopyableCougar4

#10

Was about to ask the same!

#11

I suppose your methods load files, not ressources.

Okay: First you rename your packages and remove that “src” - why the hell do you have that!?
Then you move it OUTSIDE “src”. Then you remove “src” completely from the loader path.
When exportet, you’ll need to have your “com/lcass/core/shader” folder next to the jar, you can also rename it.

#12

@Drenius

This fixes the problem more easily, granted it’s a nastier result for filepaths.

CopyableCougar4

#13

if you bundle resource files inside the classpath (like /src/…) you need to access them like

getClass().getResourceAsStream("relative_path_to_current_class_which_does_this_call/resource.vert");

or

getClass().getResourceAsStream("/absolute_path_below_src/resource.vert");

easier to put everthing outside the src root and use [icode]new File("./shader/file.vert");[/icode] ./ refers to the current working directory then. running from an IDE this would be a directory next to src.