Question about load pictures

[Jim_001]

Hello. I'm working on a program that requires a lot of pictures. I know the pictures must be in a folder for QB64 to access them.
But is there a way to have the pictures in a file instead of a folder so QB64 can extract them from there? For example, have the pictures in a zip file and load them with
Screen _LoadImage("pictures.zip/picture1.jpg")

[Gets]

You just need to create the file format. LOADIMAGE supports loading from memory now, so you might be able to just write a bunch of images to a single file along with any relevant data to know where one ends and the next begins. Then you can load each image into a STRING which can be loaded with _LOADIMAGE

[a740g]

Zip and other similar archive formats are not natively supported. You could write a wrapper around something like PhysicsFS which then loads the file to a STRING buffer and use the memory load feature like Gets explained above.

If you are using a custom archive format with no compression and know the file offset and size, then you could simply do:

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FUNCTION LoadEmbeddedImage& (archiveFileHandle AS LONG, embeddedFileOffset AS LONG, embeddedFileSize AS LONG)

    IF embeddedFileSize > 0 _ANDALSO embeddedFileOffset > 0 THEN

        IF LOF(archiveFileHandle) < embeddedFileOffset + embeddedFileSize THEN

            EXIT FUNCTION

        END IF



        DIM buffer AS STRING: buffer = SPACE$(embeddedFileSize)

        SEEK #archiveFileHandle, embeddedFileOffset

        GET #archiveFileHandle, , buffer



        LoadEmbeddedImage = _LOADIMAGE(buffer, 32, "memory")

    END IF

END FUNCTION

[Jim_001]

Thank you both for your response.

[Unseen Machine]

https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4024

Thanks for the inspiration! Its a fun project and will be useful!

John