Re: Install resources for a tool

[Nicola Pero]

On 2 Aug 2009, at 13:36, Martin Kalbfuß wrote:

> I'm creating a game using my sdl wrapper library. So there is no gui  
> stuff.
> I`m using the tool project type. But how can I install resources  
> like images
> with my game?

You need to use

   xxx_HAS_RESOURCE_BUNDLE = yes

that will turn on our support for tool resource bundles.  To be clear,  
that only works with gnustep-base - ie, it won't work on Apple Mac OS X.
If you need to support Apple Mac OS X, then you probably need to  
create a separate bundle or framework with your resources, and link  
the tool to it.

If you use xxx_HAS_RESOURCE_BUNDLE, you can then add resources to the  
tool, any sort of, with the usual

   xxx_RESOURCE_FILES,
   xxx_LOCALIZED_RESOURCE_FILES, x
   xx_LANGUAGES, etc.

The tool resource bundle (and all resources inside it) can be accessed  
at runtime very comfortably, by using gnustep-base's

 [NSBundle +mainBundle]

(exactly as you would do for a gui application).

So ... if you want to do this,

>  My current Makefile looks like this:
>
> include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make
>
> [...]
>
> TOOL_NAME = raubvogel
>
> [...]

You should add

raubvogel_HAS_RESOURCE_BUNDLE = yes

Thanks