ofImage.load from absolute path?

beginners
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Hi! First post.

Haven’t used openframeworks in awhile(since, i think, 0.8.0)

Trying to load an series of images from a directory outside of “/bin/data”

Whenever I call image.load(“E:/users/jack/blahblahblah/image.png”) the image won’t load and i get:

ofGLProgrammableRenderer: draw(): texture is not allocated
ofTexture: getTextureData(): texture has not been allocated

Have also tried ofFilePath::makeRelative(" ", “filepath”) and no joy

How would i go about doing this??

Using OF 0.10.0 and visual studio 2017

Please help!!

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okay, seems only to be a problem when loading from a different drive to where OF is located.
Still strange.

so…load(“E:/path”) works for me, but load(“C:/path”) doesn’t.
OF is located on my E drive.
weird.

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windows or mac?

if you are in windows, you probably have unicode (non ascii) characters in your path

you need to do some extra magic for this to work

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Windows.
That may well be the case.

It doesn’t matter much now, just have to keep the OF app and the images / external data on the same drive.
No biggie for me.