Image path problem in After Effects script.

[Miguel De mendoza]

If you are running as a dockable panel, your script may be in Scripts/ScriptUI Panels. This notation “./” represents the current directory. If your “(ImageAssets)” folder is inside Scripts folder, you can access like this “../(ImageAssets)/MyButton.png”, wher “../” represents the parent folder of where the script is.

[Joshua Faget]

Hello,

When I run my script from “ExtendScript” with this:
var myButton= mainGroup.add(“iconbutton”, undefined, image=”./Scripts/(ImageAssets)/MyButton.png”);

It works, but when I save my Script and place it in the Scripts folder AND in the ScriptUI Panels folder … it stops working.

If I change it to
var myButton= mainGroup.add(“iconbutton”, undefined, image=”./(ImageAssets)/MyButton.png”);
it doesn’t work neither when I run it from the Scripts folder nor when I run it from ScriptUI Panels folder…

What I am trying to achieve is to avoid “C:/Program Files…etc”

[Jakob Wagner]

I do something like this, maybe it’s what your looking for:

var scriptPath = File($.fileName).parent.fsName;
var imagePath = scriptPath+”/myfolder/imagename.png”

– Jakob

[Xavier Gomez]

fsName is mostly for display i think.
To make sure that your path will work on any system, absoluteURI is better:

var scriptPath = File($.fileName).parent.absoluteURI;
or (same result):
var scriptPath = File($.fileName).path;

then when appending the relative path, it’s better to escape the added string:

var imagePath = scriptPath + encodeURI("/myfolder/imagename.png");

Xavier