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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ui.rc file location
From:       Matt Rogers <matt () matt ! rogers ! name>
Date:       2003-04-29 14:16:34
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On Tuesday 29 April 2003 09:07 am, Sarang Lakare wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> my application has its ui.rc in the same directory as the application's
> binary. Still, when I run the application from that directory using
> ./myapp, it cannot find the ui.rc file! If I copy it to
> ~/.kde/share/apps/myapp/ then it finds it though.
>
> I thought the current directory was the first place where the application
> should look for its ui.rc file. Am I wrong here?
>
> This is on KDE 3.1 / Mandrake 9.1.
>
> Thanks
> Sarang

IIRC, applications don't look in the same directory as the application's 
binary for its ui.rc file.  It looks in both ~/.kde/share/apps/myapp and (if 
you installed kde in /opt for instance) /opt/kde/share/apps/myapp.  There 
could also be other places I'm not aware of.

HTH
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Matt
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