1. bind can never be perfect...
I was playing Jiri's Aliens game on Friday, and thought, I'll put it on a
floppy to take to work for my lunchbreak, tommorow. (I work weekends...)
So I decide, "I'll bind everything together...". This I do, and then put
the aliens.exe in a temporary directory on the HD ('cos the drive is
slow).
As you've guessed the game didn't work because the .f and .wav files were
missing.
I have a solution:
1. Bind the file (this saves having to include the .e files at a later
stage...)
2. Make a self extracting archive (SFXA) of all the necessary files
(In this case, the two fonts, the three sounds, and the main executable).
I used pkzip and zip2exe for this purpose, but another should work just
fine...
I find it better to name the SFXA with a tilde (~) at the beginning of
the filename to remind me not to run it on it's own.
3. Create a batch file along the lines of:
@echo off
mkdir ~run
cd ~run
copy ..\SFXAname.exe .
call .\SFXAname.exe > NUL
call .\Bound_Euphoria_Progname.exe
echo y | del *.* > NUL
cd ..
rmdir ~run
and put it in the same directory as the SFXA.
So my Aliens batch file looks like this:
@echo off
mkdir ~run
cd ~run
copy ..\~aliens.exe .
call .\~aliens.exe > NUL
call .\a.exe
echo y | del *.* > NUL
cd ..
rmdir ~run
Comments welcome,
Carl
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