Incbin Question
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| Well, I've searched the forum alot, but the didn't find the answer. In my Project I have a lot (about 2000) of small text files with only readable data and I want to include them to my EXE because it should not be accessible to everyone. Here are my questions : a) Can I include normal text files like at the beginning of my code: Pseudocode: dir = Readdir("c:\abcdef\") Repeat file$ = Nextfile(dir) Incbin file$ Forever b) if a) = yes then is it possible to use the same functions as for normal files: ie: While not EOF("incbin::abcdef.txt") or f_open = Readfile("incbin::abcdef.txt") or n$ = Readline(f_open) Thx |
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| a) Can I include normal text files like at the beginning of my code: No. Includes must all be able to resolve to absolute values at compile time. But you can write a small program that generates the .bmx source code you can include.Although maybe you can use wildcards, and/or make a feature request for an IncBinDir command. :o> b) if a) = yes then is it possible to use the same functions as for normal files: This is actually possible, since loading can be done at runtime. |
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| Thx, I've just tried it and have also found out that it doesn't work this way. Now i will to try a codegenerator. Again thx for the fast answer. |
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| Or you could just cut and paste and then modify the numbers a bit, if all the filenames are similar. |
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| Thx AngelDaniel but cut and paste more than 2000 files and rename them is too much work without a code generator. This code gen is ready, but now i have to find something to check if the incbin file exist. I have tried it with filetype but that haven't work. And yes, the pathes works correctly, because the prog prints it correctly. but the prog also returns 0 everytime i call filetype. Any Ideas? |
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| I have now written my own little function to get if an IncBin file exist or not : (maybe it will help) Function inc_filetype:Byte(incfile$) if not Readfile(incfile$) then Return False else Return True endif Endfunction I know it is not much but it works. |
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| You forgot to close the file ... and you should be able to use FileType. But why not just traverse the directory and include all files ending in .txt? |
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| It seems that it doesn't need to close the file. And it is a project for with more people who are writing the source files. Filetype definetly works not on my computer with Incbin files. but my code works good. |
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