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Started by buggy123 August 17, 2009 12:37 AM

1 comment, last by riruilo 14 years, 8 months ago

buggy123

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August 17, 2009 12:37 AM

Well, I made this little program that loads and displays picture (.bmp) in fullscreen. It works fine if the .bmp file is on the computer, but it fails if not. I was wondering if there's someway to include/fuse the picture into the .exe during compilation. This way, it will work whether the computer has the picture or not. I know that this is inefficient in large programs, but mine only loads one picture. So, it doesn't make a difference. Anyways, anyone got a simple way to do this? Thanks

marius1930

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August 17, 2009 04:03 AM

Just add it as a resource using the MSVC resource editor.

riruilo

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August 17, 2009 04:23 AM

You can also use some tools like molebox, which even protect (encrypt) your resources.

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