Pictures not included in binary project

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Pictures imported into a project show up in the IDE (e.g. one can select a picture for an ImageViewer).

However, they do not seem to be included when one saves the project as a binary project.

Is there a solution to this?

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What do you mean by “not included”? When you add a picture to a project, it is not copied into the project, it creates a reference to the file on disk.

Can you give us more detail as to what’s happening?

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Are not part of the binary. People may think that the binary contains everything, but images are external.

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Yep. That’s by design.

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There is an option called ‘Collect Project Items
’ under Xojo’s File menu, but that will also copy plugins and will save to a new location. Maybe that will help you?

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What this “Collect project items” doesn’t do is to copy all files you specify in the build settings under “CopyFiles”


But I opened an issue a while ago for that (o;

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The way I handle this is to base64 encode my images and save them as string constants. Then I load them into picture objects using Picture.FromData(DecodeBase64(Constant)). It also prevents the image files from being required in distribution too.

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Christian,

That’s what I decided to do. Should have it put together shortly.