Re: Resources and Euphoria (Opening a new thread)
>Closest I've come to anything similar is a message I posted to the list a
>very long time ago.
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>I include it here in case anyone missed it:
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I see, but I was trying to mean something different. I don't want to have
one hundred files around. I.e. my thermometer program is made up of 31
files, most of them bitmaps or includes.
I would like to have a single .EXE file that once run could dynamically load
those bitmaps from itself, without having any other dependent file.
Moreover, I would like to be able of changing the bitmaps without touching
the binded executable.
So I was proposing to have a single file with a dual contents. At the
beginning, the normal .EXE. After the .EXE, a kind of "resource" file that
would consist on an array (or sequence) of headers that would describe the
later contents. A header should have a couple of pointers -where the
resource begins and its length-, a name -to identify it-, a descriptor -to
know what kind of resource is-, etc.
Thus I could change a single bitmap by adding it at the end of the .EXE and
updating the pointer and lenght parameters... You can think even in using
text resources to localize your program to different languages. Adding a new
language would be a matter of changing pointers and adding resources.
And the global benefit is a single file to store everything. If you want to
discard it, just a single delete command. No .INI, no registry...
JesusC.
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