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Re: is there an application bundle equivalent on the PC ?
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Re: is there an application bundle equivalent on the PC ?


  • Subject: Re: is there an application bundle equivalent on the PC ?
  • From: Graham Anderson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:02:53 -0800

is this a Resource Hacker kind of thing ?
Also, can you specifically target files using the Window's finder like:

This is what I currently use to launch a QT movie in Windows...
The below will open the file name Fonovisa.qtl in the user's 'My Documents' folder:
!define FILENAME "Fonovisa"
!define InstallDir "$DOCUMENTS\$FILENAME"
ExecShell "open" '"${InstallDir}\${FILENAME}.qtl"'



Could I change the Install Directory to something like: Fonovisa.exe\Resources\myXML.xml

g



On Feb 8, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:

On Feb 5, 2005, at 10:26 PM, Graham Anderson wrote:

is there some kind of PC equivalent to creating an application bundle file like you create from Script Editor or Applescript Studio ?
being able to access files within the your application bundle makes everything so portable :)
is this possible on the PC ?

Sort of. There's no direct equivalent to packages on Windows, that is, the this-is-really-a-folder-but-it-looks-like-a-file thing. However, Windows executables can have additional resources "baked in" as it were, so you still only have to look at one file. It's pretty much the same concept of Mac OS's Resource Manager, only without using multiple file forks and without as many annoying restrictions on data size.


That said, Windows culture does not forbid having lots of ancillary files near the application, nor does it expect applications to be movable once they're installed. Not that either wouldn't be desirable, they're just not expected.


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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