Executable acting strange...

[Punnie]

Hi all,

I don't know if this is possible but somehow my executable when running from the Run command in Code::Blocks is behaving differently from the executable that is created from building my file.

Here's what my program is suppose to do: it reads a bitmap extracts its information and prints the RGB values as characters to a text file. This looks exactly like my bitmap when I run the program from the Run command. However when I run the executable that is created, somehow the image gets swapped some how.

I tried rebuilding after deleting the executable, changing my bitmap file etc but nothing seems to work. Where have I gone stupid?!

Please help!!

[Urxae]

Does your program accept any command-line parameters? If so, maybe you specified some in Project -> Set programs' arguments that make it behave differently.

Another way to check is to set Settings -> Compiler -> Other -> Compiler logging to "Full command line", then run your project. The log will show exactly what command line Code::Blocks runs (including any command-line parameters) and in which directory (relative to your project dir).
See if pasting that command line into a DOS prompt (with as current working directory the same directory as C::B used) produces the same result as running your program from Code::Blocks.

If you still can't figure it out after checking that, try posting your project (sources, .cbp file and sample input) or a link to it. Maybe that extra information would help people here figure out what's going wrong.

[rickg22]

It could also be that from Code::Blocks, your program is running from ANOTHER directory, and thus it can't find the file you're processing, or creates the text dump somewhere else.

[Punnie]

Thanks for the hint problem solved now!