It'll be your IDE, either not making the current working directory the same as the directory from which your binary is running. And, of course, the rest of the problem seems to be that OpenLayer only accepts an ASCII string for a path name.

With that in mind, I guess the solution is to find a UNICODE version of the raw-C function setcwd, use it to do something like setcwd(Setup::GetExecutablePath());

I'm not much help beyond that though. Sorry!

That isn't needed (the exe_path thing), since OL always does that for you. But it's true that AppData would be a better idea.

Is it safe to assume you're not idiotically trying to do the exact same thing under OS X?

As per Appdata, etc, I don't think that Vanneto has in any way implied that he intends to do more than load these files.

Doesent the IDE change this:

bitmap.Load("gfx/bitmap.png");

So that it loads from the project root directory? For example, I have the .exe in bin/Debug. Isnt the root path in ../../ so It would be:

../../gfx/bitmap.png

?

It could work, it's just quite against the normal application bundle structure and much less easy to set up as an automated part of the build system in Xcode.

I guess the best solution, if you're looking for one, is to explicitly implement Setup::GetResourcePath(), make it return the same as Setup::GetExecutablePath() under Windows/Linux/whatever but have it return the path to the resources part of the application bundle under OS X, if the application is so packaged.

That tiny bit of code is probably quite trivial to implement, depending on how you're currently jumping between Objective-C and C++ in OpenLayer, and I'd be more than willing to help.

It's not the normal way to store binaries and their data in UNIX either.

SetRotationPivot? Also "bmp = NULL;" shouldn't compile, as NULL is a pointer, but bmp is not.

What's so hard about setting it once for each object? Especially if you've got 'Blit' as a method in your class? Just find the object's center , store it in a data member and call SetRotationPivot(center) at the beginning of the Blit function.

As far as your second to last post why "new Bitmap("bitmap.png")" works when "bmp("bitmap.png")" doesn't , I don't know. That's really strange since they should both be using the same constructor. What do your Bitmap constructors look like? If you wrote your own constructor then the compiler takes away the default constructor - Bitmap::Bitmap() . I don't know if that has anything to do with it though.

Only if it doesn't move. If you mean the center point's relative position from a corner well yeah , that's always the same.

I didn't mean recalculate the center every time the Blit function was called. Just because I said it all in the same sentence doesn't mean I meant do it all right together.

And yes if you have more than one 'Bitmap' object that is being displayed then you'll have to call SetRotationPivot for each one that is rotated otherwise they'll be using one pivot for all of the different 'Bitmap's.

Does Transforms::SetRotationPivot() affect only one bitmap? How does it work? BTW, currently I have it like this:

But it still places it above the ground when rotated. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for replying. But this just doesent work:

I attached the binary so you can see what it does. When you get to the black screen, that is the "menu". Just press S to go to the playing part. Move with A and D.

Thanks!

P.S. deg() turns degress in radians. I tried whitout it and it doesent work too.

Im doing this now in the init:

void Player::init(Bitmap *im)
{
    image = im;

    // Set the rotation pivot
    center_x = (image->Width()/2);
    center_y = (image->Height()/2);

    image->SetDefaultPivot(Vec2D(center_x, center_y));
}

And this in the draw() function:

void Player::draw()
{
    static float angle;
    if(moving == 0) angle = 0;
    else if(moving == 1) angle = deg(0.4);
    else if(moving == 2) angle = deg(-0.4);

    if(moving > 0) image->BlitRotated(x, y, angle);
    else image->Blit(x, y);
    moving = 0;
}

But it still gets lifted... Take a look:

Normal:
{"name":"593818","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/6\/2\/62cb871a29fdd5d46f1c8a3650315acf.png","w":1024,"h":768,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/6\/2\/62cb871a29fdd5d46f1c8a3650315acf"}

And "running":
{"name":"593819","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/b\/5\/b5bcf7e209aacc0dd7722070b14ae33d.png","w":1024,"h":768,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/b\/5\/b5bcf7e209aacc0dd7722070b14ae33d"}

I really would like to use OpenLayer because of its coolness. But I just need to get this fixed.

Thanks!