fix: files not opening due to relative path issues

.gitignore

@@ -149,6 +149,4 @@ cython_debug/
 #  be found at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
 #  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
-#.idea/
-
-data/
+#.idea/

Run.bat

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
-@echo off
-
 if not exist "./data/requirements.txt" (
   echo Installing requirements...
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   echo Requirements installed successfully > "./data/requirements.txt"
 )
 
 python ./src/main.py
-exit
+pause

src/components/PopularWords.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from os import path
 from customtkinter import *
 
 from util.utils import getPopularWords
@@ -30,7 +31,10 @@ def updateWords(self):
             widget.destroy()
 
         words = []
-        with open("data/latest.md", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        currentDir = path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__))
+        dataFile = path.join(currentDir, "..", "..", "data", "latest.md")
+
+        with open(dataFile, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
             for line in f:
                 words.extend(line.split())
 

src/ui/ui.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from os import path
 from customtkinter import *
 from rich.console import Console
 
@@ -137,7 +138,9 @@ def showPopularWords(text):
 
 def saveTextToFile(text):
     try:
-        filePath = f"data/{generateFileName(text)}.md"
+        fileName = generateFileName(text)
+        currentDir = path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__))
+        filePath = path.join(currentDir, "..", "..", "data", fileName + ".md")
     except Exception as e:
         console.log(
             "Failed to save text to file, most likely due to input field being empty"
@@ -202,16 +205,16 @@ def renderMainTab(root) -> CTkTextbox:
         ),
     )
 
-    try:
-        with open("data/latest.md", encoding="utf-8") as f:
-            loadedText = f.read()
-            getTextInput.insert("0.0", loadedText)
-            updateMetrics(
-                loadedText,
-                resultsLines,
-                resultsSymbols,
-                resultsWords,
-                resultsReadingTime,
-            )
-    except Exception as e:
-        console.log("Failed to load file")
+    currentDir = path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__))
+    dataFile = path.join(currentDir, "..", "..", "data", "latest.md")
+
+    with open(dataFile, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        loadedText = f.read()
+        getTextInput.insert("0.0", loadedText)
+        updateMetrics(
+            loadedText,
+            resultsLines,
+            resultsSymbols,
+            resultsWords,
+            resultsReadingTime,
+        )

src/util/utils.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from datetime import date
+from os import path
 from pathlib import Path
 from string import punctuation
 from rich.console import Console
@@ -75,5 +76,7 @@ def generateFileName(text: str) -> str:
 
 def saveCurrentText(text: str) -> None:
     text = [line.strip() for line in text.split("\n") if line.strip()]
-    filePath = Path("data/latest.md")
-    filePath.write_text("\n".join(text), encoding="utf-8")
+    currentDir = path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__))
+    dataFile = path.join(currentDir, "..", "..", "data", "latest.md")
+    with open(dataFile, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        f.write("\n".join(text))