C-API Opening Files (in the simulator)

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SDK: 1.12.3 on Linux

I have a custom binary file I've made, named "latin.bin". It's put into "Source/data", and I can see it get copied to the PDX ~

/home/sando/Code/Play.Date/PlaydateSDK/PlaydateSDK-1.12.3/bin/pdc -sdkpath /home/sando/Code/Play.Date/PlaydateSDK/PlaydateSDK-1.12.3 /home/sando/Code/Play.Date/Turret/Source /home/kingsley/Code/Play.Date/Turret/Turret.pdx
Unrecognized file types are copied by default. Use the -k or --skip-unknown flag to skip these files instead.
Copying data/latin.bin
...

And in the Turret.pdx directory, I can see the file: data/latin.bin.

But when I go to load that in my code, it always fails returning a NULL file handle, with an error message of "no such file".

SDFile *fin = playdate->file->open( glyph_files[gt], kFileReadData );
if ( fin == NULL )
{
    playdate->system->error( "Failed to open Keyboard File [%s], error [%s]", glyph_files[gt], playdate->file->geterr() );
}

So I'm always getting the message logged:

Failed to open Keyboard File [data/latin.bin], error [No such file]

I don't understand what's wrong. It looks OK to me.

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For this you’ll want to use kFileRead to read out of the pdx itself.

kFileReadData is used to search the game’s “Data” folder (something like /Data/<bundleID>/ on the console’s storage).

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