Import Binary Data and Dialog Box

[kpassaur]

I will try it this way. I will open my folder of images and create a matching script file and use include.

I still think it would be a nice option to have the compiler do it automatically. That is what it is doing with the Include File, it is just saving the end user from having to create them.

I compile my images because I found a user that changed them and was reselling one of my progams. My images have been reduced to a header and a line of text, because of the lines that have to be edited when I make a change. I would just change the font in the Dialog and only use the header, but the user may not have the font installed that I want.

I use an installer called Deploy Master and I would recommend it to others in a heartbeat. It is easy to use, it registers DLLs, (if need be) calls third party installers, (Dot.net vbscript etc.) it allows for about everything (different components\options to be installed) the list goes on and on and it sells for around $100 (I think, I purchased it years ago and it has free upgrades). The only thing it does not do is add icons to the Quick Launch Bar. The same company also makes a great Help File Creator.

[gdyvig]

Modularizing as Marcus suggests is the way to go.

If you don't want all your include files in the same SCRIPT_DIR, there is a very simple workaround - ChangeDirectory. And YES, it works with compiled macros.

ChangeDirectory>%MyImages%
Include>IncludeImage1.scp
Include>IncludeImage2.scp
ChangeDirectory>%MyDLLS%
Include>IncludeDLL1.scp
Include>IncludeDLL2.scp
//Change back to main script directory
ChangeDirectory>%SCRIPT_DIR%

You can also have an include script which uses the same technique to include other include scripts in yet other directories.

Also, the new v11 script editor makes it much easier to switch between scripts, almost as good as and editor supporting multiple windows.

One thing I have not tried yet which may still be a problem - using the debugger or trace. You should be able put put breakpoints in your scripts to skip past the thousands of lines of imported binary info.

Gale

[kpassaur]

Thank you for your suggestion.

What I am trying (I will see how it goes) is placing the Include Scripts in the same folder as the images with the same name. I have a bunch of them and this way hopefully they will be easy to manage. (bunches of very small images, which I will continue to import - I can live with 500 lines)

Most of the bitmaps I use are just a couple of words, I use a standard color background in the dialog “Whiteâ€

[Marcus Tettmar]

One thing I have not tried yet which may still be a problem - using the debugger or trace. You should be able put put breakpoints in your scripts to skip past the thousands of lines of imported binary info.

When data is imported it is put at the end of the script with an Exit> statement *above* it. This means that the debugger/interpreter will NEVER run over the imported data. Always put the data at the end after an Exit statement. It still gets recognised and used by ExportData and by the dialogs but it means you will never execute or step over it as the script will always terminate before it gets to it.

[kpassaur]

Thanks for the tip, however, if I put the Exit>0 in an include script before the image it did not work.

My script containing the image only contains the image nothing else. I removed the Exit>0 before the text and it imported and ran fine.

On the ones that I am compiling I just have one Exit>0 which is where the code ends and the images begin.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Works for me. The importer even adds the Exit for you.

This works for me. The image shows in the dialog and is exported to the file. And if you debug it the debugger stops at the Exit statement.

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Dialog>Dialog1
   Caption=Dialog1
   Width=445
   Height=250
   Top=205
   Left=231
   Image=FOUND.BMP_DATA,48,40,105,105,msImage1,0
EndDialog>Dialog1

Show>Dialog1,r

ExportData>FOUND.BMP_DATA,%SCRIPT_DIR%\new.bmp

Exit>0
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Obviously you'd always want to make sure all your binary data was at the end.

Oh wait - I see when this wouldn't work - if using includes. Of course. It would stop the includes from working. You'd need to execute them to make the script suck in the file.

[kpassaur]

That is what I was doing a poor job of explaining. On an include with just a bitmap, it exits before the bitmap is read (I think). I do know if you just have a bitmap (nothing else) and use include you cannot have the Exit>0 before it.

[Phil Pendlebury]

Please note that currently, importing multiple bitmaps leads to multiple instances of "Exit>0" - One before each bitmap block.

Presumably this is not a problem but presumably also only the first one is required.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Correct.