Any way to get a list of Resources, that were set in the IDE, during
runtime?
lazarus / 9-Editor

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wpflum · 2020-09-03 18:39

I'm not sure I worded this correctly so here goes.  
I want to add several small rtf files to the program to use as
templates and want to make it easy to add or change them in the
future.  When I found out I could add them in using the IDE, Project
Options, Resources, screen I did and was able to get them from the
program then.  The problem is that is if I add more or change the
names of the files it looks like I have to modify the code reading
them.  What I'd like to do is create a class that will return the
number of templates along with their names but I can't seem to find a
way to get a count or a list of the names without manually adding them
into the code.  What I'd like is to just add files to a subdirectory
and then tell the ide that these are to be included and not have to
change code. 

 Is there any way to do this?

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TRon · 2020-09-03 18:58

Quote from: wpflum on September 03, 2020, 08:39:03 pm Is there any way
to do this?
Sure 

Create a directory structure on disk and place your rtf templates
where you'd like them to end up. Now use the zip command to zip the
templates into a zip-file. Add that zipfile as a resource, and
load/examine the archive using TUnzipper.

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wpflum · 2020-09-03 19:21

That would work, I was hoping for a little more elegant design what
with the resources being in set in the IDE.

If nothing else pops up I'll do it that way.

Thanks.

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Handoko · 2020-09-03 19:49

I remember there was a similar question like yours recently, maybe it
can be useful for you:

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,51037.msg374117.h
tml#msg374117

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wpflum · 2020-09-03 20:00

All the link does is send me to the main forum screen and searching
for the message number, 374117, just finds your post.

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Zoran · 2020-09-03 21:06

Quote from: wpflum on September 03, 2020, 10:00:27 pmAll the link does
is send me to the main forum screen and searching for the message
number, 374117, just finds your post.

Handoko's link works for me...
Anyway, you don't need the message number, only topic number (which is
51037) is important.
Perhaps surrounding in "url" tags might help you? Try:
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,51037.html

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wpflum · 2020-09-04 13:11

Weird, I read this message on my iPad at home and was able to click
the link and get there but this morning at work both Chrome and Edge
just show me the main forum screen.  I was able to search for the
topic number and find it again.  I did see this and tried it but was
having issues but I'll give it a shot again.

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wpflum · 2020-09-04 13:29

I remember now, this uses a res file but when I add them in using the
IDE I don't seem to have that.

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wpflum · 2020-09-04 17:33

Ok, found out the system was creating a res file when I added the
files, not sure how I missed that, and using some of the code from
that older topic I'm able to generate a list of the resources and use
is to populate the class object.

Thanks for the help.