Symptom
The images are missing when a PowerBuilder application is deployed using PBC with a PBR file. When you deploy the same application using PowerBuilder IDE, you get the error "Could not find resource file."
For example, if you create an application that contains the following files:
C:\app\test.pbt
C:\app\test.pbl
C:\app\images\about.ico
C:\app\images\test.pbr
If the content in the test.pbr file is "about.ico", then you can reproduce this problem when you deploy this application.
Environment
PowerBuilder 2017 or later
Cause
This is because the path of the image in the PBR file is incorrect.
The path is relative to where the PBT file is located, so "about.ico" points to the file c:\app\about.ico. However, the image file is not located in this path thus causing the problem.
Solution
Solution #1: Change the relative path of the image in test.pbr.
The user who encountered this problem solved it in the following steps:
In the PBR file, change "about.ico" to ".\images\about.ico". Please note that if any image controls in your application use this image, they are also required to use the same relative path ".\images\about.ico".
If the image file and the PBR file are located in the same directory, and the image name in the PBR files does not contain the image file's path, then you can use the following Solution #2 or Solution #3 to resolve the problem.
Solution #2: Change current directory of PowerBuilder IDE.
Each time before you use PowerBuilder IDE to deploy, click on the Browse button behind Resource file name to select the PBR file again so that it will automatically change PowerBuilder IDE's current path to where the PBR file is located. In this way, you can successfully deploy your application in PowerBuilder IDE.
Solution #3: Use PBC to deploy the application, but switch the current directory before you do so.
As shown in the screenshot, before you execute PBC, run the command first to switch to the directory where the PBR file is located.
cd c:\app\images
