Both work fine. If your doing something like loading arrays of
pictures, or you might want to change pictures without recompiling the
app, or you might want to be able to update the app without sending
another copy of the pictures, load them from the disk. I like to keep
files in the project unless I find a reason not to, like one of the
ones I listed.
I haven't thought about this much before, anyone else have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Craig.
On Dec 18, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Landoq wrote:
Hello,
I am writing a game in rb and i have a doubt:
Add graphic files to project or load graphics from disk in code ? the
first option assemble all graphics in the executable file but i don´t
know if this option is recommend or not.
thanks and Merry Christmas from Spain.
Víctor Fernández
Landoq Software
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On Dec 18, 2006, at 17:27 UTC, Craig M. wrote:
I haven't thought about this much before, anyone else have any
thoughts?
During development I've certainly found it much easier to keep them on
disk, especially if you're working with an artist. The artist can then
simply change the artwork (or sounds or whatever) and re-run the latest
build of your app; they don't even need to have RB installed. Also,
even if you have RB, it's always been a bit poor at noticing when an
image file on disk has changed. So if you have pictures in your
project, and you're working on the artwork, you'll find yourself doing
wasteful things like quitting and restarting RB just to get it to
notice that the picture has changed.
Another thing to consider is that images and sounds in your project get
built into the resource fork on the Mac (at least in a PEF app), but
this is limited to 16MB, which isn't really all that much these days.
So, I say go with files on disk at least during development -- and
maybe for deployment too.
HTH,
- Joe
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