i recently bought a6pro. one of the features i wanted the most was the resource creation (wrs).

the thing is, in my project i have a lot of plain text files which are read at runtime and the levels are built according to that. i'd like to include those text files in the encrypted resource file, so they can't be edited by the end user, but this doesn't seem to work: the files can't be found (everything else, models etc, that i also manually used bind to include in the wrs, are working fine).

i know that in the manual it's stated that the file must exist in the savedir. and file_open_game explicitly says that the files can't be inside a resource.

so... what are my options of reading a text file inside a resource?

thanks in advance

joaquin

Copy the textfile from the resource to your gamefolder - with c_script.
Then you can read out the data.

Edit: Look at: file_cpy (string destname, string srcname);

fogman, thanks for the suggestion. i have tried this, but i couldn't get it to work, maybe i'm doing something wrong?

i have e.g. a file called "myfile.txt". i do the resource, binding that file, and then i try:
file_cpy("myfile.txt", "myfile.pak");

is that right? or do i have to rename the file to myfile.pak before doing the resource?

thanks for your help

joaquin

Hum... this should work. Wait - have you added a wait(3) after file_copy? It might take some "ticks" to create the file.
I haven´t tested this method, but somewhere jcl stated that this is a workaround for this kinds of files (e.g. if you want to read data out of them, play videos, etc...)
For me it´s bedtime now, if you can´t get it to work, pm me. I´ll answer tomorrow.

I don't think a wait(3) is required - at least I would not know for which reason. However, you should check the return value of file_cpy. If it's zero, there was no such file found in your resources.

Hi,

you have to rename the file to .pak and then you can put them into the
resource! After that you can use file_cpy to extract them to the filename
you want.

Frank