Does anyone know of a method for adding files to the `Resources` folder for the macOS .DMG from our ...

# compose-desktop

[Nik]

Does anyone know of a method for adding files to the Resources folder for the macOS .DMG from our build.gradle.kts? I have an application which performs file I/O (ultimately to run .sh scripts for a variety of tasks) and I’m having trouble locating those files once the application is installed, as File(".") gives me the macOS root directory /, not the same file structure as when running the application in IntelliJ

[Nik]

Though it is odd to me that accessing .svg files from my Composables would succeed with a path like "raw/image.svg" where the original file is at "src/main/resources/raw/image.svg", meaning there must be some difference in how the svgResource(…) method is accessing project files and how File(…) is doing it

[Nik]

If anyone would like to do this, this is my current workaround (sorry, 😶 ); this adds the src/main/resources file to /Applications/{your app}.app/Contents/Resources/resources

buildAndAddResources.sh

[jim]

Compose is not doing anything special to resolve resources, it is just using the standard JVM classloader resolution rules. The path is "raw/image.svg" because gradle adds"src/main/resources/" to the classpath and "raw/image.svg" is the resource path relative to the classpath.

See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html#getResource(java.lang.String) for details.

[saket]

@Nik is this related to https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/issues/794?

[Nik]

Ah possibly — the script above accomplishes what you’d like to see added to the library in that issue!