.exe file problems

After creating an .exe file of my game I discovered that it does not work on another PC (works fine on mine) -
could somebody tell me what I should do? Many thanks.

Did you load anything in that game? music, gfx, maps, .ini files etc. etc. etc.

If so, perhaps it can't find these files.. perhaps you used absolute paths..? If so: don't. :P

Thanks for help, yes I do have Gfx etc in
C:\Program Files\Blitz Basic\GAME\Gfx,
I then changed path to GAME\Gfx and found that the program could not find gfx etc.

You have to tell your program where to find assets - it doesn't magically know if you start renaming folders.

Create your executable in the same location as the source code. Use relative paths i.e. "Game\gfx" instead of "C:\Program Files\Blitz\another folder\my games\Game\gfx". That way your stuff will work through the IDE, and as an executable.

To prevent errors like these you might want to spend a few hours on new loading functions with proper error reporting.

Something like this:

Function LoadImage2(f$,flags=1)
  i=LoadImage(f$,flags)
  If not i RuntimeError "Image ["+f$+"] not found!"
  Return i
End Function

..but then a whole lot o' functions like these.

Thanks for replies, have now solved problem,
was using "C:\Program Files\Blitz\etc as path.