[Lazarus] [fpc-pascal] Poor man's resource code available and CheckRide update: now with editor

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:09:42 +0100
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> (Cross posted to Lazarus+FPC lists)
> 
> Thanks to UPayload (http://www.delphidabbler.com/articles?article=7) and
> some help on the forum, I could implement an alternative way of storing
> files in an executable file (basically it just appends them with a footer).
> See source: poormansresource.pas in
> https://bitbucket.org/reiniero/checkride/src/, and the
> CheckRideResourceZipper project for sample code
> 
> This method allows me to edit such a "resource" using an FPC/Lazarus
> program.
> As - I think - DoDi predicted, I had a lot of trouble trying to work
> with regular Windows resources, but whether that is due to bugs in FPC,
> Windows or me, I don't know ;)
> 
> I updated my CheckRide remote control package with this functionality: a
> helper can edit CheckRide.exe with his hostname and port number and
> distribute that single exe to his clients/helped persons.
> This allows 1 click operation at the helped side.
> 
> I also tested operation with a Linux helper running stunnel+vncviewer
> and a WIndows helped party running CheckRide.exe
> 
> See the site mentioned above.
> 
> Comments, patches, as well as criticism welcome ;)

What's the advantage compared to lrs files?

Mattias