OpenEuphoria

Re: ICON Solutions!

• Posted by Brian Jackson <bjackson at 2FARGON.HYPERMART.NET> Nov 17, 1999
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Hi all,

I have to agree with Bernie on this one.  I believe that when you start
fooling around with the PE(EXE) file format, "bad things" will happen.  I
think that running a program by using "exw euprog.exw" would work fine
using a modifiled exw.exe file, but try BINDing it, and you've got a
problem, because exw.exe will have the wrong address for the start of the
shrouded source code (unless Rob intentionally coded the interpreter
differently).

Just to point it out, I'm sure that RDS forbids modifying EX.EXE or EXW.EXE
in any way as part of the license agreement.  I would assume that the same
goes for modifying the interpreter section of a bound .EXE file.  Short
story - I don't think you can distribute a modified version of the
interpreter without RDS's permission.

As a request for RDS - I agree that having a custom icon in a bound EU
program would be a big plus.  Now that I am a free-lance programmer, I have
plenty of opportunities to write profressional programs in Euphoria, and
one of the things that a couple of clients have asked is for me to create a
customized icon for their programs.  For now, I've done it with a .PIF
file, but here's my suggestion:  Embed some specific icon (or multiple
icons if you REALLY want to indulge me!) in the EXW and EX interpreters.
Then allow us to use an icon editor (AX-ICONS, IconForge, etc.) to change
the icons to whatever we want in bound files.  I would also suggest that
you only embed icons in the registered versions of the interpreters, as yet
another incentive to upgrade.  It ought to be relatively easy to implement
(dare I hope for v2.2?!), and would be one more way for Euphoria to show
off!  Let me know what you think!

Brian


On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:20:37 -0500, Bernie Ryan <bwryan at PCOM.NET> wrote:

>Brian
>
>  I think the problem is not that simple.
>
>  When a resource ( icon ) is added to an exe it is append to the end of
>  the exe file then a offset to the resource location is inserted in the
>  exe header. If a icon is added to the exw.exe file it is append ok but
>  if you bind any files to the exw.exe then the resource file will be
>  sandwiched in between the exw.exe and the bound files and I think that
>  is a major problem when you try to change the icon.
>
>  Bernie