SFML 2.0 requires full file path...

[GSfml]

Hello, I have noticed that whenever you specify something like a texture, sound, etc. You have
to specify the full file path for it to work. for example this will not work:

sf::Texture texture;
texture.loadFromFile("image.png");
 

This doesn't work, I made sure I put it in the same directory as the executable. It just says failed to load image.
Reason: could not find file. You have to do it this way for it to work:

sf::Texture texture;
texture.loadFromFile("C:/Users/Gwhiz/Documents/test/bin/Debug/image.png");
 

Is this a bug, or is it supposed to be like this?

[Laurent]

The executable directory is not where relative paths are searched for. They are searched relatively to the current working directory. When you run your executable from your IDE (Code::Blocks, Visual Studio, ...), the working directory might be the project directory instead, for example.

A quick solution is to change the working directory in your project settings, to make it match the executable directory. But a more robust solution would be to retrieve the executable path programmatically and append resource paths to it so that you end up using well-defined absolute paths, and don't rely on the current working directory which might be anything.

[GSfml]

It works, thanks! I didn't expect such a quick reply to my question! This is part
of the reason I stopped using SDL and chose SFML over it.