Linux(kubuntu) Problem

[Neil Vice]

"Wolftousen Frozenwind" <eliot.darkwolf at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Tower  Ty Wrote:
>
>> You must be in the same directory as the executeable or have the $PATH 
>> set to where it is or and more . But explain what you mean by run in 
>> console and run in eclipse?
>
> When i'm in the folder with the executable inside the kconsole, and type 
> ./program_name, the program runs just fine.  Finds all the files and loads 
> the properly.  Same with eclipse, right after i compile, i click run as D 
> program and it runs just fine, loading all the files properly.
>
> I was running into problems when running it by clicking the program icon 
> inside the Dolphin (folder explorer).  I found (should have check this 
> before posting) that when you run in eclipse or console that it uses the 
> directory you are in (knew this, didn't think about it till just now) and 
> that when you click a executable icon, no matter where you click it from, 
> your directory changes to /home/user_name... which was causing my files to 
> not be found and thus not loaded...
>
> resolved the error by using getcwd() and changing my directory within the 
> program before loading files... haven't done much file io in linux so this 
> was a good learning experience...

It sounds like that may just be a "feature" of Dolphin perhaps?