Resources Folder Options

General
1

The new Resources folder is quite annoying, and may force me to purchase one of the many programs available to generate single executables. The key problem for me is not that my users have access to these resources, but that I have multiple versions of the program in the same folder as my users (students) are told to keep the old version available should the new version cause problems.

The question I have is this. Can two programs share the same Resources folder? Also, can I merge two resources folders into a single folder if the two programs need difference resources?

From a different perspective, does an executable try and load all the resources in this folder, or only those that it needs?

2

I tried using a single Resource folder for two different programs. It works fine.

I am less sure about the loading part. I would be surprised if it loaded resources it has no idea about in the first place.

3

Only those which are needed.

4

Thanks Michel and Sascha. Together you answered my questions.