Installing Pixmaps, Helpfiles Where I Want Them To Go

[Larry Morley <lmorley albany net>]

Hi,

Is there a way to do what would be the loose equivalent of passing a
fully qualified pathname to gnome_pixmap_file(); i.e., for a pixmap
named "foo.png", installed in /usr/local/bin/myapp/images, what would
do what gnome_pixmap_file("/usr/local/bin/myapp/imgs/foo.png") would
if it worked?

I'm asking for several reasons: when I try passing the full path of an
image to gnome_pixmap_file(), it never works.  By default, on most of
my systems, the function always looks in /usr/local/share/pixmaps.
On some other systems, though, including some which don't have a
/usr/local/share/pixmaps directory, even if I create it, the pixmap
is never found.  The user running the app has access to the director-
ies in question.  Anybody know why this might be?

The second part of this question is regarding help files.  I'd like
to place them under .../app/helpfiles/C, etc. Is there a way to do
this?  It'd seem to be GNOMEUIINFO_HELP(pathname), but I can't the
macro to accept a pathname either.

The main reasons I want to do this is so I can place all application
components (with the exception of the .desktop file) under one sub-
directory, to make removal of the app easier and more intuitive, and
for access control purposes.  I realize this isn't the standard way
to install pixmaps and help files, but I really would rather do it
this way if it's at all possible.  I've seen other apps that have
pixmaps installed in other places, but I can't for the life of me
figure out how they're accessing them.

Oh yeah; one last, off the topic completely - what's the correct
way to do direct I/O port accesses under GNOME?

Thanks,
Larry