[4.6.2] Issue loading files outside godot or .pck

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Godot Version

[4.6.2] 2D

Question

Hello again!
New conundrum: I need to access files within the executable’s folder. I have…kind-of.

Right now, the way I am doing it is a bit silly, but it is as follows: 
var exePath = "/"

func _ready() -> void:
	var rebuild = str(OS.get_executable_path()).split("/")
	print(rebuild)
	rebuild.remove_at(len(rebuild)-1)
	rebuild.remove_at(0)
	print(rebuild)
	for ii in len(rebuild):
		exePath += rebuild[ii] + "/"
	print(exePath)

This worked perfectly for .txt files, so long as I simply append them accordingly. However, attempting to instead append a .png, .otf, or otherwise returns:

E 0:00:00:809   Maker.gd:114 @ Styles(): No loader found for resource: {PATH TRUNCATED} (expected type: unknown)
  <C++ Error>   Method/function failed. Returning: Ref<Resource>()
  <C++ Source>  core/io/resource_loader.cpp:358 @ _load()
  <Stack Trace> Maker.gd:114 @ Styles()
                Maker.gd:64 @ Manage()
                Maker.gd:23 @ _ready()

This is odd. I would further suspect load(), but if I am to instead pull from res://, in the editor (by simply replacing exePath with “res://”), it works just fine. The files are indeed in the appropriate file location, too.
The error message was pulled from a png, specifically for assignment to a button. I’ve put the Styles() function below accordingly, though the error still occurs outside the function.

Styles() 
func Styles(type, loader, _margin):
	ActiveStyles.append(StyleBoxTexture.new())
	ActiveStyles[si].set_texture(load(exePath + loader))
	#commented code removed
	ActiveInstances[i].add_theme_stylebox_override(type, ActiveStyles[si])
	si += 1
2

Probably this is happening for you:

From @GDScript.load docs:

Note: Files have to be imported into the engine first to load them using this function. If you want to load Images at run-time, you may use Image.load(). If you want to import audio files, you can use the snippet described in AudioStreamMP3.data.

3

Unfortunate. I had attempted to use ResourceLoader.load and fill in the type hint, but that gave the sane error. Is it the same deal with ResourceLoader and FileAccess?

4

It’s not to use the ResourceLoader, as this have the same limitation as the @GDScript.load. You should use the examples mentioned in the docs.

For an image:

var img := Image.new()
var err := img.load(path_to_your_image)
if err == OK:
    # You image loaded successfully, do your stuff

For an a mp3 file:

func load_mp3(path):
    var file = FileAccess.open(path, FileAccess.READ)
    var sound = AudioStreamMP3.new()
    sound.data = file.get_buffer(file.get_length())
    return sound
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5

‘err’, or in the example, ‘b’, does not load the file.
Given:

var a := Image.new()
var b := a.load(exePath + loader)
if b == OK:
	print(a)
	print(b)

Output:
():<Image#-9223372009474357809>
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Attempting to use a or b results in an error. The commands likely would not work out regardless due to how objects and memory is handled in my game.

Using b just results in the engine being mad at me for putting an int into a slot for images, while using a results in just nothing happening, likely because the image doesn’t have anything attached.