.jpg files and final product

[coMOTose]

I am writing an application that makes use of .jpg files. These are read into the application at run time. I would like to find a way to ship these with the final .exe in some sort of compressed format (ie zip, cab, rar) such that the directory is not filled up with 50 .jpg files. Is there a routine that reads from a compressed format? Thank you in advance.

[Spectre]

The Packaging and Deployment Wizzard in VB will allow you to specify additional files to be included with your installation. These additional files are compressed (by the P & D Wizzard) and placed in the .cab files distributed with your program and are extracted and placed in your program's directory during the install.

Hope this helps.

[coMOTose]

that definitely helps for program deployment. I am also looking for a way to store the images within a compressed file during runtime to save install space. I know that there are some vc++ routines that allow this type of action. Thank you very much for responding Spectre. Any additional help is greatly appreciated.