Folders not found/opened in my prog' on cd/dvd

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Hi, I have spent some weeks now tying to get a teaching aid to run giving aid for children to learn English.
On my M/c it works fine, naturally as it use's VB files by default.
Now when it is on disk, loaded on a clean PC it loads fine and I can get it to react to some click commands. These are the unmoveable ones set in the layout. All sound files in SOUNDS and SoundsA folders are not found, also the GRAPHIC folder will not open to display the letters and pictures. Autorun starts up great, it's just not finding, therefore not opening the folders.
I am not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination and I first made these cd's in 1998 with VB5 then, you just copied to disk and am now a 74yr old Volunteer. I, along with the children, will be greatful to anyone who can help me solve this problem.
SmudgeXVI

Posted 1-Oct-11 2:39am

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Mehdi Gholam 1-Oct-11 9:35am

Are you running on Windows 7 or an older windows?

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Michael Haephrati · Answer 1 · 2011-11-27T09:32:00

You should make sure any file path in your program is relative to where the applicaiton itself is ran from.

To do so, use

app.Path

which will return this path.
So if the applicaiton was ran from

VB

"c:\users\myname\documents\mywork\"

and the sound files were located in

VB

"c:\users\myname\documents\mywork\sounds"

, then if you run your applicaiton from a CD

VB

(D:\)

, app.Path will become

VB

"D:\"

and the sound files will be searched at

VB

"D:\sounds"

.