[Gtk-sharp-list] Glade# and resources.

[Bob Smith]

I've wondered why we havent done this with non microsoft binaries. Is elf
limited so that this kind of stuff cant be done?

On 12 Sep 2002, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
>     In the .NET universe you can "embed" into your executable resources
> files, like for instance the .glade files, could we add a constructor
> that would allow a developer to load the glade file from its resource?
>
>     The resource is embedded like this:
>
> 	mcs test.cs -resource:file.glade
>
>     Then we can retrieve the XML like this:
>
>
>
> using System;
> using System.Reflection;
> using System.IO;
>
> class X {
>
>         static void Main ()
>         {
>                 Assembly a = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies ()[0];
>
>                 Console.WriteLine ("Assembly: " + a.ToString ());
>                 Stream s = a.GetManifestResourceStream ("file.glade");
>                 if (s != null){
>                         StreamReader sr = new StreamReader (s);
>
>                         Console.WriteLine (sr.ReadToEnd ());
>                 }
>         }
> }
>
> We could then use the glade_xml_new_from_buffer.
>
> With this we can ship a standalone .exe file, and not worry about the
> installation prefix or how to locate our data files: everything can be
> embedded into the executable.
>
> best wishes,
> Miguel.
>
>
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