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Dark GDK / Loading media from a resource file

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SunDawg
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Posted: 10th Dec 2008 00:44
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For the sake of user convenience, I want to include the media for my program in the executable. I've managed to get everything compiled into the exe without difficulty using Visual Studio. (I have 2008/Pro) The problem I'm facing now is accessing this data with the GDK's file commands. (dbLoadImage, &c.) Does anyone know, exactly, how this might be done?


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kBessa
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Posted: 10th Dec 2008 04:08
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This has been discussed a lot. You might get some media loaded through MemBlocks, but not every type of media. The best path right now shoud be to extract the file, load, and delete it.

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SunDawg
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Posted: 11th Dec 2008 00:39
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Yeah, that's what I figured. Seeing as that is somewhat sloppy and would potentially cause a lot of disk fragmentation, I'd rather just include the media in sub folders. Inconvenient, but I'm not concerned with security.


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jason p sage
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Posted: 12th Dec 2008 04:35
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Quote: "and would potentially cause a lot of disk fragmentation"


Well... I just saw a demo from a buddy who uses DarkBasic Pro... he has all his media in these "*.uber" files.. which I think is kinda funny to start with... his game is a FPS called "ONE"... I don't know the links in the forum to it... but I wonder what he's doing to encode the media... hmm...

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