Opening "external" files in a compiled Mac program

Hello

I have a program that has a button to open an external .pdf file.

when I run via Matlab, I have the button call this code

system([sprintf('open %s',path)]);

where path is the name of the file to be opened, and this works fine.

I then compiled the program on Mac, and included the external files within the compiled executable.

However, when I run the program, nothing happens when I click the button

Can you help explain why this happens and how I can fix it? Do I somehow need to call the files differently if they reside within the compiled executable?

thanks!

[Anton Kogios]

Not too sure if this will work, but you may need to allow (full) disk access to the executable in System Preferences.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See the FAQ:

https://matlab.fandom.com/wiki/FAQ#Why_can't_my_standalone_compiled_executable_find_my_files?

[HpW]

This is what I ended up using to get it to work

path = fullfile(ctfroot,'progname',file);

ctfroot does not contain the files, but there is a folder one folder down from ctfroot (named something like your compiled program name) that does contain the files which are included in the compiled program.

thanks for the help!

[Image Analyst]

Do not call your variable path since that is the name of a built-in variable.

See attached function that may be helpful to you.