Embeding files in AU3 scripts?

[BlackShadow]

I'm an old school programmer and I just started testing AU3 and I must say that I already love it. But I am curious if its possible to embed files in an AU3 script so it's included in the actual EXE?

To be exact, what I want to do is to make a SQLite database which I want to access from a script in read only mode, but would prefer to have it in the actual EXE instead of having an additional file distributed with it.

Thanks in advance!

[Dampe]

Amazing what a search does

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=51103&hl=embed

You can also look at

FileInstall()

in the help file.

[BlackShadow]

Thanks, I did search, but obviously I used wrong keywords or typoed.

Sorry for that, but really appreciate the help.

[BlackShadow]

Using FileInstall() doesn't work, as I don't want it to save a copy of the actual database somewhere, or any other file either.

But I took a quick look at resources.au3, but I'm not sure it can actually do what I want.

I added this into the header:

#AutoIt3Wrapper_run_after=ResHacker.exe -add %out%, %out%, database.db, rcdata, BIN_DB, 0

And this into the start of the code:

$BIN_DB = _ResourceGet("BIN_DB", $RT_RCDATA)
_SQLite_Open ($BIN_DB)

And then compiled the program, but when I run the exe it doesn't seem to be able to actually do any searches in the DB, but it doesn't complain either, so atleast SQLite thinks it can open a file, just that it's empty or something.

And yes, I got ResHacker fixed etc, so it's not something like that.

Edited December 26, 2008 by BlackShadow

[Zedna]

No this is not possible (by simple way) to directly access database embeded in resources.

Use FileInstall() to exctract it at runtime to @TempDir

[BlackShadow]

No this is not possible (by simple way) to directly access database embeded in resources.

Use FileInstall() to exctract it at runtime to @TempDir

Thanks for the info, I'll work around it with FileInstall() instead then I guess.

Perhaps Dampe shouldn't be so quick to reply next time?