Letting the user create a portable Exe
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| This program I'm writing lets a user pick multiple images and music and sequence them into a show for showing off to their friends. Currently, the file structure that they have to work with looks like this: Is there a way to write a function in my program that allows the end user to take all of those media files and wrap it up into a single exe? That way, when they want to show off their slideshow, they just have to worry about bringing along a single exe file, not a folder filled with a bunch of media files. |
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| Gman's ZIPEngine module might work. http://www.gprogs.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=8 Can't add files into the EXE but you should be able to lump everything together into one additional file. |
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| I don't think there is a way to build them into an executable along with the main program, but you can put them all in a single 'pak' file. There are some examples around the site, one of which is http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=2249 from the Code Archives. If you use this, the user will only need to distribute two files, rather than several. |
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| You could use the exe's resource section to store the images, there is code to do it for BlitzPlus somewhere around here (should be a snap to convert it to Max). |
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| Cool, but could the end user do it by themselves? Oh, and thanks GFK. That looks like a good solution. |
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| You could create an exe to do all the features using its own exe resources and incbin that, and when you want to make a portable app for viewing the images you just write the incbin'd executable to the HD and write all the images/config files to the exe's resources. Cool, but could the end user do it by themselves? Probably if you gave them a wizard to use.. |
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