editing filies within the blitzmax exe
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| Is it at all possible to say take a highscore table file that has been incbin:: into the exe, take it out, edit it if some one has beaten the scores and then put it back inside the exe without leaving a trace of it behind.....? and access it in the meantime for general reference...... |
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| No reason why not. Open the exe in a hex editor, find the incbin'd file data, and change it. Hard to add more stuff to the file, but easy to change specific contents. |
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| i am talking about on the fly , something that blitz max could do without you knowing...... |
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| Ahh... well, given you have the Pointer to the incbin'd file, you should be able to amend the data at various locations. But once you quit the app, the changes would be gone with it. |
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| so it wouldnt save the new highscore data for instance..... |
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| this? <edit> maybe not... that's in memory Why does it have to be BlitzMax that you use? |
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| i can make a highscore table and stick it in the same drawer as the main exe i was just wondering wether it was possible to do it, just to make things tidier so i didn't have to run it from a directory drawer i could run it anywhere and not worry about it dumping files here and there |
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| I agree with Brucey then. You could change the highscore table in memory which would be lost when the app close. You can't open the .exe for writing (unhandled memory exception) as it is locked by the OS (certainly by Windows anyway). |
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| make your high scores on-line ? or default to a file if the connection isn't made. |
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| Even if you could open it for writing it would be bad idea due to Limited User Accounts. Use app data folders for storing your data. |
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| Not to mention that normally modifying a .exe file would cause the anti-virus software to block it. (Not a good way to earn peoples trust, then when they exit your game they get a virus warning!) |
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