IncBin

[Baggey]

Any one give me an idea of the usage of incBin.

I assume it's some way of loading graphics music etc.. in away someone else cant pinch your underlying code?

[Jackdaw]

See the documentation.

[_PJ_]

Essentially, it is a way of packing external assets [any kind of filetype] into your executable.
Of course, it will inflate the size of exe and you can only have hardcoded static paths to those files.

It can mitigate the end users' ability to examine/steal/edit those assets, but if they're particularly shrewd wityh the right tools, they might still be able to grab the binary data and recreate the individual files - it will be very labour intensive for them, so may be enough of a deterrent for all but the most peristent - depends on the potential for rewards I guess...

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To use IncBin it really is a s simple as:


Incbin "C:\Program Files\BlitzMax\samples\aaronkoolen\AStar\mountain.png"

Local I:TImage=LoadImage("Incbin::C:\Program Files\BlitzMax\samples\aaronkoolen\AStar\mountain.png")

[Baggey]

It can mitigate the end users' ability to examine/steal/edit those assets, but if they're particularly shrewd wityh the right tools, they might still be able to grab the binary data and recreate the individual files - it will be very labour intensive for them

Are saying even just an .exe could be stripped for internal working code 

Baggey

[_PJ_]

Are saying even just an .exe could be stripped for internal working code 

Baggey

Anything is decrypotable/decompilable - it's jsut a matter of effort & time (and maybe tools too)