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- Tokinsom
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The following "expression" is how you retrieve a file from a folder inside your game's folder:

AppPath & "GameFolder2\File.blah"

Well, what if the file you want to load is a variable? If you change the above to:

AppPath & "GameFolder2\global('file')"

then everything in the quotation marks is just turned into a string, even if the global value ends with the proper extension.

The only way I know how to get around this is to use sub events that compare the global value and then load the appropriate file, but if I have a lot of files to load then that could get tedious. Do I have a choice?
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- R0J0hound
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Would this work?

Pull global('file') out of the quotes and just combine it with &.

AppPath & "GameFolder2\" & global('file')
- Tokinsom
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Don't know why I didn't try that earlier -w-; But yeah it works. Thanks!