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Re: embedding resources in runtime application [message #49652 is a reply to message #49650]

Wed, 09 August 2006 08:16

Ben Panter
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JeremyFaden@gmail.com wrote:
> Is it possible to embed resources (arbitrary data) into an IDL runtime
> application? We're in the process of adapting an existing application
> to run on the IDL virtual machine, and we make use of ascii files to
> store tables configuration information for third-party plug-in modules.
> I realize we could go through and convert these into IDL routines, but
> this is a large code base and we'd like to minimize changes for us and
> third parties. Also I notice in the IDLDE projects, there is a "Data"
> folder which might fit my intent, but I can find no reference to how
> this is used.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Jeremy Faden
>

Hi Jeremy,

I'm a VM novice myself, I'm not sure if I have the wrong end of the
stick but I use it to read in (and write) ASCII, fits and sav files with
no problems - just as long as you distribute the ASCII with the program
and the path is unchanged you should have no problems. You might want to
think about putting a subdirectory called 'DATA' under the one that the
VM .sav file sits in, and referring to it with relative paths?

cheers,

Ben

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