babazaroni

I need to embed a sysex file with my windows external. My thought was to put the sysex file in the Resource Files section of the VC++ studio project.

If this will actually embed the file in the external, are there any Max functions that can locate this file or give me a handle to the resources files?

I need to embed a sysex file with my windows external.  My thought was to put the sysex file in the Resource Files section of the VC++ studio project.

locating-windows-resource-files

I've read Windows resource data inside externals by using the Windows API. And I've read OS X resource data (in the external's Bundle using Info.plist and/or data-fork based Resources) using the relevant OS X APIs. And, of course, in Classic Mac OS days with calls to the good ol' Resource Manager.

You'll have to write your own code for this, with conditional compilation if you want to be cross-platform.

The Max API does include the legacy rescopy() and resnamecopy() calls, but I don't think they ever did anything productive on Windows. With Max 5 resnamecopy() became non-functional and rescopy() was limited to 'STR#' resources (the equivalent of a Windows String Table). So, if anything, Max 5 has reduced the support for resource access.

The thing is, at a high-level Windows and MacOS resources share a lot of similarities. It's just the lower-level access requires a bit of tedious coding for each platform. The sort of thing where an abstract cross-platform layer could be really useful. But whenever I've brought up resources in the past, there has been no positive interest.

Maybe they'll like you more.-) Good luck!

Alternately, you could hard-wire the sysex file as binary data inside your code.

You'll have to write your own code for this, with conditional compilation if you want to be cross-platform. 

The Max API does include the legacy rescopy() and resnamecopy() calls, but I don't think they ever did anything productive on Windows. With Max 5 resnamecopy() became non-functional and rescopy() was limited to 'STR#' resources (the equivalent of a Windows String Table). So, if anything, Max 5 has reduced the support for resource access. 

Alternately, you could hard-wire the sysex file as binary data inside your code.


Locating Windows Resource Files