texture mapping - only see solid color no texture

Hello,
I am attempting to map a texture to a rectangular box. I am using texture.h, texture.cpp and texture1.bmp (in linux)from this tutorial (downloadable at the bottom):
http://www.spacesimulator.net/tut3_texturemapping.html
The code basically loads a bitmap file into memory that and lets openGL know it is there to use.

So, First i draw a box a solid green box then i try to map the texture over it. The problem is i only see a green box with no texture over it.
Am i doing this wrong? (do i even have to draw a box first?)

 
 glColor3f( 0,0,1 );

    glBegin( GL_POLYGON );
    glVertex2f( 0.65, 0.55 ); //@@ bottom right
    glVertex2f( 0.65, 0.6 ); //@@ top right
    glVertex2f( 0.55, 0.6 ); //@@ top left
    glVertex2f( 0.55, 0.55 ); //@@ bottom left
    glEnd();


    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);// turn on texture mapping

    int textureId = LoadBitmap("texture1.bmp"); //id of the texture being loaded
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureId); // load the correct texture by it's id
    glBegin( GL_QUADS );
    glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f( 0.55f, 0.55f, 0.0f); //top left
    glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f( 0.65f, 0.6f, 0.0f); //top right
    glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f( 0.65f, 0.55f, 0.0f); //btm right
    glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f( 0.55f, 0.55f, 0.0f); //btm left
      
     glEnd();
 

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

How your lighting is setup and how your materials are setup will affect how textures look too.

I don’t see any of that above.

Oh, I did not know you had to set up other things … (from reading the tutorial).

do you have any example code?

Also… the bitmap image is 256x256 pixels, so there should not be a problem there.

ok… i found the problem.
It was the path of the image.

if i put the complete path… like /home/user …
then the texture works.

Does anyone know how to specify the path relative the the working directory?

like /images/texture1.bmp ?
instead of: /home/user/…/images/texture1.bmp

If the image is in a folder relative to the executable (like /home/user/project/images/image.jpg) use:

./images/image.jpg

If the executable is in something like /home/…/project/bin and the image is in /home/…/project/images, use:

…/images/image.jpg

Thanks a ton foo!