Sorry your browser is not supported!

Has anyone used them before? I only found one post on the forums even mentioning them

I just gave them a go. Basically, using open files (dbOpenToRead/Write) you pack or unpack files using:
dbReadFileBlock, dbReadDirBlock, dbWriteDirBlock, dbWriteFileBlock.

Is this an acceptable way of working? To load a texture you would have to first extract it, load the texture and then delete the extracted file again.

Are there better ways to do it? I suppose people rarely get their projects to that stage and it isn't usually an issue, but obviously this kind of thing is necessary for a finished game so someone must have figured it out? (please) Or is it acceptable to do it this way?

re-edit - I took this out before I realised it was commented on but - it would be great if we could dbSetDir in the pack file and proceed as normal. Maybe an idea for an update?

Cheers

Well, DarkGDK file commands is slow. Maybe there is another way to unpack/pack files than use the *Block commands. But you have a great idea! I have never see these commands before!

Hi,

I tried to use the Memblock commands to build a ressources file using dbMakeMemblockFromImage, dbWriteMemBlock, dbReadMemBlock and dbMakeImageFromMemblock.

It's an easy way to access data but the file created is huge. (about 15 Mo with this method instead of 2 Mo using pack files.)

I prefer to use the dbWriteFileBlock and dbReadFileBlock commands even if I have to extract the files and delete them after used the textures. Afterall is just 2 more commands of code and it's not very slow for small projects.
Including this in a loop allow to texture a lot of objets using 3 lines of code (Ok I use more than one commands per line ), but it's really short.

Anyway I agree, this might cause problems with "big" programs.

Cheers