resources

Opening Resources in Text File Format in Notepad

Hi everyone, I'm having some trouble using resource files. In my project I'm using a bunch of bitmap files and two txt files. Bitmaps are used as backgrounds for controls, but .txt files I want to open in Notepad or WordPad. Till now I was accesing them from a file path on my machine: ControlName.backgroundimage = New Bitmap(direcory...

Procedure for managing resources (images) in Visual Studio build.

I have a software product that is used by two customers. There is one codebase, the only difference is that each customer has their logo on the product. My question is, what is the best way to manage the codebase so that I can easily build the project for each customer, and never use the wrong logo? I currently have both images in a dir...

ResXexplor Dephi 2010 Demo

Has anyone improved the ResXexplor demo that ships with Delphi 2010? The demo does not load 256x256 icons. These icons appear as 0x0 0 colors. The demo does not load Cursor Groups. The bitdepths are not shown correctly except for for 16 color icons. All other bitdepths are shown as: 48x48 0 colors 32x32 0 colors... Any suggestions on...

how to use a resource file (txt - tab delimited) as a data source for win32 application

hi, i am working on a win32 app. i am currently using the text file which has tab delimited data as a source. i want to embed this as a resource so that i need not worry about shipping this file along with .exe file. can anyone tell me how to do it? ...

Packaging Android resource files within a distributable Jar file

I am working on some reusable Android code that I would like to distribute to other developers for use within their own applications. The code has some resource dependencies (layouts, xml & png drawables) that I would like to be able to include and reference within a single package (Jar file). Is this possible, and if so what is the bes...

DotNET project resources and memory, what's going on?

Where can I find reliable information regarding project resources and memory? I'd like to know when resources are loaded into memory from the dll, when they are removed by the GC etc. Reason is my app carries the help-file topics as HTML-Strings inside the source, and I'm about to add the possibility to include images. I don't care if m...

Public resources, spark & conflict

Using this to generate my resources. Problem is, spark dies when tries to generate dynamic views because there is app_globalresources.dll and myapp.dll somewhere there - deep into temp jungles. .spark(9,36): error CS0433: The type 'Resources.Account' exists in both 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET File...

Looking for resource management/allocation system

What I need is a system I can define simple objects on (say, a "Server" than can have an "Operating System" and "Version" fields, alongside other metadata (IP, MAC address, etc)). I'd like to be able to request objects from the system in a safe way, such that if I define a "Server", for example, can be used by 3 clients concurrently, the...

Embedding a file into C# .NET application and then reading it in slowly?

I have a rather large resource (2MB) that I'm embedding into my C# application ... I want to know read it into memory and then write it to disk to use it for later processing? I've embedded the resource into my project as build setting Any sample piece of code will help me startup. ...

Detect whether WPF resource exists, based on URI

Given a pack:// URI, what's the best way to tell whether a compiled resource (e.g. a PNG image, compiled with a Build Action of "Resource") actually exists at that URI? After some stumbling around, I came up with this code, which works but is clumsy: private static bool CanLoadResource(Uri uri) { try { Application.GetRe...

Problems wih minSdkVersion 1.5

Hello, we have a problem related to the manifest file and the property "android:minSdkVersion". The issue is: If our platform is 2.0 and we use the property "android:minSdkVersion=3" (3 = sdk 1.5) the graphics get corrupted (In details, the application's resolution get reduced to a 2/3 part of the original size, this is, when the reso...

asp.net global resources problem

Hello. I have a weird problem with global resources in my asp.net mvc web application. I have some resources in separate project(not a web app project). Those resources have following settings: Build action: Embedded Resource, Copy To Output Directory: Do not copy, Custom Tool: ResXFileCodeGenerator. When I change an existing value i...

Android: good practices for organizing dirs and files on storage SD card?

Are there any guidelines where should my app store resource files downloaded from internet? ...

PI historical database SDK resources

I'm looking for any third-party resources for programming the OSIsoft PI historical database SDK. Websites, books, etc. I already have what OSIsoft puts out. ...

Resource file for a Custom ASP.net control (.ascx) InvalidOperationException

I have a control containing some text which I want to get from a resx file, I thought I could just create a file called ControlName.ascx.resx but that doesn't seem to be working. I'm using label1.InnerText = (string)GetLocalResourceObject("default"); To get the value from the resource file but it keeps throwing up an InvalidOperatio...

Best way to do "/blogs/:year/:month/:day/:permalink" routes in Rails?

I've got a blogs_controller with a Blog resource, so I've got your typical routes right now as follows: /blogs/new /blogs/1 /blogs/1/edit #etc But here's what I want: /blogs/new /blogs/2010/01/08/1-to_param-or-something /blogs/2010/01/08/1-to_param-or-something/edit #etc ... /blogs/2010/01 # all posts for January 2010, but how to spe...

Access ResourceDictionary items programmatically

I have a Silverlight controls assembly, called "MySilverlightControls". Several folders down into that assembly i have a class which extends a grid column from a third party vendor, let's call it "MyImageColumn.cs". I have also created a resource dictionary called Generic.xaml, this is situated in the Themes folder of the assembly. In t...

What is the Max length of a resource name?

In my XCode project, I added a Sounds folder to my Resources folder. Into the Sounds folder, I dropped a couple of MP3 files with fairly long names (25-30 chars). I like to be descriptive. However, the following code chokes with an UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION: fileURL = [[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath:[mainBundle pathForResource:@"really_r...

Storing short strings and numeric values in resources in Android

I want to have some static numeric and text values as an application resource. For example my data is like this: Levels 5 First_Level 500 60 1 Second_Level 500 80 1 Third_Level 200 60 1 Fourth_Level 130 30 2 Final_Level 100 30 3 ... and another 300 lines... The format and order of the data is predefined and guaranteed to be valid. I ...

How to load program resources in Clojure

How do you load program resources such as icons, strings, graphical elements, scripts, and so on in a Clojure program? I am using a project layout similar to that in many Java projects where there is a "resources" directory hanging off of a "source" directory. A jar file is created from the source and includes the resources, but I can't ...