Graphics

Is there a way to use the engine.projectpath command without it being dependent a project being active in the Project Manager?  I have the following script:

'declare variables
dim baseobj as xpbaseobject
dim state as xpTextObject

'get scene objects
Self.getobjectbyname("State", baseobj)
Self.getobjectbyname("Selected State", state)

'set state icon
baseobj.SetVolatileTextureFile(0, engine.ProjectPath & "Images\States\" & state.text & ".png")

This works so long as the project is active.  Our stations will generally have multiple projects loaded at once, so there is no guarantee that the project using this script will be active.  I thought about using engine.GetProjectByName, but because the project name changes every time I do an increment and save I would have to go in and update this script every time I update the project.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Hi John

Have you tried using Engine.GetProject instead? Not sure how the indexing of the projects would work, but the chances are they'll remain the same even after a save.  The xpProject object you'd get back has a ProjectPath property which might help.

How is your script being called? Have you considered using Global Scripts as well?

Simon

You could also try Scene.Project.ProjectPath or it looks like in your case Self.Project.ProjectPath

That will return the project path of the project containing the scene.