How to get source directory's path?

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Factis
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How to get source directory's path?

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I'm stuck with this :/

Which function can return source directory's path?
(My .love archive is located in "C:/Love/Test/", how do I return this path?)

Thanks.
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Re: How to get source directory's path?

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Re: How to get source directory's path?

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My game is located at C:/Love/Test
and this function returns me:
C:/Documents and Settings/ADMIN
nothing else
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Re: How to get source directory's path?

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Hm, I don't think the path to the game directory/archive is exposed in any way. You could check the table passed to love.load. That usually contains the directory or archive in 1, but it depends how you start LÖVE of course. Fused games start differently, for them you would need the program path and that's not in the table from love.load, but I think it saves it somewhere in the love table.
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Re: How to get source directory's path?

Post by Roland_Yonaba »

I'd just like to point out that this works perfect for me, when I drag the *.love file on "love.exe".
But, as it's likely to work in all cases, as BoolSheet said, so it might not be a valuable option.
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