VERY strange problem in .NET! Holy CRAP. FIle path getting so weird

[ThePentiumGuy]

Holy crap. Holy.....crap

 

I've never had this problem before, but when I do a Mesh.loadheirarchyfromfile("Meshes/Tiny.x", other arguments), sometimes the file path gets weird.

 

On my computer the project is loaded in the bin directory in My Documents/Visual STudio projects. And doing "Meshes/Tiny.x" loads the file from the bin directory.

 

But on OTHER PEOPLES computers, "Meshes/Tiny.x" searches through My Documents/Meshes/Tiny,x --> as in MY DCOUMENTS (C:/documents and settings/thepentiumguy, which they don't have).

 

The mesh I've chosen resides in the bin folder of the application, and all I've provided is the "Meshes/Tiny.x" argument, and NOT a "My Documents/blahblah" argument.

 

What is going on? And how do you fix this?

Edit: And for your information, this works on some computers (including some that aren't mine), but not others..

 

Thank you very much.

 

-The Pentium Guy

[PlausiblyDamp]

How are you and these other people starting your app? If they are running it from a shortcut then it could be setting the working directory to the My Documents folder. Rather than rely on relative paths try using the applications folder as a starting point.

[thenerd]

Try using

 

Application.startuppath & "\Meshes\Tiny.x"

 

instead of just the static string. See if that works.

[ThePentiumGuy]

How are you and these other people starting your app? If they are running it from a shortcut then it could be setting the working directory to the My Documents folder. Rather than rely on relative paths try using the applications folder as a starting point.

No shortcut, just the EXE.

And I did try the Application.StartupPath method

 

...But the werid part is, a reboot fixed it all. I am so pissed.