[RESOLVED] Resources

[Andrew Truckle]

If I add a file as a internal resource with say ID_MYFILE

how can I convert this resource into a string suitable for passing to a function which previously required a path to a file? Can it be done?

[real name]

do you mean CString((LPCSTR)ID_) constructor or CString::LoadString() functionality?
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[Andrew Truckle]

You tell me!

I have a function FunctionLoadInit(char *pathtofile)

At the moment I pass a string.

I though I might be able to insert the file as a resource, give it an ID and somehow use this as the parameter, but it must be a string.

I am trying to avoid having to issue a seperate file with my program, thats all.

[real name]

maybe i still do not understand (why cathegory dialog?)
you want read data from resource given by its name (string)
try to look ak FindResource and LoadResource funtions (RT_RCDATA?)
maybe this helps you
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[Andrew Truckle]

Hi

I put in in this category because I am doing a dialog based application.

The embeded resource needs to be treated as it it were a standard file.

For example, if you embed a BITMAP, you can use MAKEINTRESOURCE

[Gomez Addams]

If the contents of the file can be treated as a standard resource you can do this.
Another way to look at this is if you can imbed your file in the resource script as a
string then a call to LoadString should work. I doubt any of the other resource types
would be very helpful. Watch out for binary data in the file - could cause difficulties.
Just give the file an id like any other resource and pass this to the LoadString member
of a CString object.

Do you want the contents of the file or the name of the file in the resource?

[Andrew Truckle]

Hi

I want the contents of the file.

Basically, I want to add the binary file as a resource, therefore it is embeded in the program, but I then need some way of accessing this data as a binary file.

I could use LoadResource/FindResource to get a HGLOBAL, but I don't have a clue of how to treat this as the equivalent of a binary file stream with read/write facilities.

Any ideas?