IncBin instruction

[Emil_halim]

Hi Charles'

does Oxygen basic has something like 'incBin' include binary that will load a file and put it with exe file while
compilation , giving the user the start address of memory containing the file and the length?  

[Charles Pegge]

Yes you can use embedfile to embed any kind of file (within the includepath spec)

Supposing you had a file: t.txt containing ABC

sys p

embedfile "t.txt",p

byte b at p

print b[3] '67

I haven't got a formal parameter for length but, since it is stored as a pseudo-bstring, you can recover the length like this:

dword le at (p-4)
print le '3

[Emil_halim]

Ok , thanks Charles,

for the length , i have an idea .

can we put a label before and after embedfile instruction , then we can subtract this label to get the length.

so what do you think?

[Charles Pegge]

Embedded data is stored in dataspace, which is curently unlabelled. All refernces are assigned to pointer variables (also string variables)

PS: Just realised you can also refer to embedded data as a bstring constant

bstring p
embedfile "t.txt",p
print p
print len p

[Aurel]

Charles ..
I never ask about this but this looks to me like command bind
so do i can bind any file to already created exe ?

[Charles Pegge]

The bind keyword is used for low level linkage to DLLs. EmbedFile is more like embedding resources.

[Emil_halim]

Hi Charles,

what about Bin file that may contains many text terminator char.

does the len get it correctly?

[Charles Pegge]

Yes, it stores the whole file content as a binary string of specified byte count.

[Emil_halim]

so deos len get the correct length?

[Charles Pegge]

Yes, if you map a bstring onto the data
sys p
embedfile "t.something",p
bstring s at p
print len s

You can also map any type or structure to p at the same time

byte b at p
image img at p

or at any offset of p

rgba pixel at (p+256)

print pixel[10].blue

[Emil_halim]

that's great Charles.

one more thing , Sphinx C-- also support including a specific part of the file as well.

what do you think? 

[Charles Pegge]

Could add offset and length as optional parameters. Does Sphinx do it this way?

[Emil_halim]

No , it is only include the needed part of the file.

something like this

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sys p
embedfile "t.something",p , optional offset ,optional  len