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

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 31-1-2012 0:53, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:10:55 +0100
> Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I hadn't even thought about lrs honestly. Would I be able to easily edit
>> an lrs resource once it's added to an exe as well?
> When the lrs is changed you have to recompile.
> 
> I never thought of editing exe files. Antivirussoftware
> does not like that.

;) Could be.

Reason why I (think I) need some kind of resource editing functionality:
I'm editing a config file, contained
in a zip (which also contains winvnc.exe) in CheckRide.exe (the exe for
the "client", helped party).
This is done to customize the software before sending it out to the
client i.e. when it is used the exe is not changed.
Forcing admins to have a full Lazarus install just to change some
settings would probably not be conducive to my tool's popularity... ;)

Submitted  to http://virusscan.jotti.org/en; only Kaspersky indicated
something:
not-a-virus:RemoteAdmin.Win32.WinVNC.mh

Other alternatives that can be used to customize:
1. Distribute an .ini file along with checkride.exe
2. Start checkride.exe with command line arguments
3. Let checkride autoconnect to the (hardcoded example.com) server; when
it fails, the user can specify host/port in the GUI and try again

I suspect having winvvnc.exe (either plain or as a resource) might be a
bigger problem...

Thanks,
Reinier