Accessing files from code within a VFP executable? 1

[GuitarSlayer]

Hi,

Firstly don't ask me why I want to do this, all I can say is that I have been asked if its possible to accomplish.

Here we go, is it possible to copy out a bmp file from a VFP exe to disk?

As you have probably guessed the bmp is included in the exe at build time.

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[GuitarSlayer]

Um sorry my title for this problem is misleading it should read 'Accessing files from within a VFP executable from code'

 

[bborissov]

Yes, it is possible, just use:
<pre>
STRTOFILE(FILETOSTR([MyBMPIncludedInVFPExe.BMP]),[MyBMPOnDisk.BMP])
</pre>

Borislav Borissov

 

[alvechurchdata]

That's an interesting solution but surely you'd have to have that code compiled into the Exe for it to work.

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Borislav's code works - if considered desirable, you can also use it to distribute miscellaneous files other than image files.

You can check for the existence and/or properties of the required files as the VFP application initialises and extract them from the .exe if they have been deleted or modified.

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Chris
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[alvechurchdata]

Borislav's code works

I can only get it to work if I compile it into the exe. Does GuitarSlayer have the source code?

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Geoff

I have assumed the bmp is available on his local drive and so all GuitarSlayer needs to do is to add it to the 'Other Files' on the 'Other' tab of the Project Manager.

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Chris
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[GuitarSlayer]

Borislav,

Thanks for the post man, i'll get to it asap.

 

[GuitarSlayer]

Geoff,

No I don't have any source code yet I'm just testing a theory,
basically the bmp sits in the exe, all I'm trying to accomplish is to copy the bmp from the exe onto disk, via foxcode, in this particular instance the foxcode would be a prg.

Thanks for your interest.

 

[JRB-Bldr]

"Is it possible to copy out a bmp file from a VFP exe to disk?"

There are a number of Shareware/Freeware programs out there which will 'rip' a copy of the icon image from EXE files.

Google icon rip exe and you will get a number of search responses.

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[Mike Lewis]

JRB-Bldr,

But, surely, that would apply to icons, as opposed to bitmaps. The point is that Windows has a way of storing icons (ICOs) in EXEs, whereas the ability to embed any file type, such as BMPs, is special to FoxPro.

Mike


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[JRB-Bldr]

Mike - you are correct.

If the BMP file (such as a button image BMP file, etc.) is included with the Project and compiled into the EXE then the Shareware tools will not work.

I mis-understood what it was that he was trying to extract from the EXE file.

JRB-Bldr