binary data... useless waste of filespace ?

[neat_Kliker2]

I have searched and found nothing...
I have an animation I am making, the music is an external file played by directshow and so the file is in the data manager under binary data, and the exe size is 2MB bigger... Yet when I run the program, or even go to the temporay application path, there are no extracted files... Maybe I am missing something ? And checking `include external files` and having directshow load a file from a path pops up the error `external files not included` but does not include them in the final exe.

[Yves]

I think there is a conflict between the "Include external files" option and the embedded binary files, you should remove this option.

Make sure the external file is in the directory of the MFA file, and you build the EXE in this directory too.

If you load the file with an expression, specify its full pathname, e.g. Apppath$ + "yourfile.mp3".

[neat_Kliker2]

Thanks, it works now, maybe it doesn't like appdrive$ + appdir$ ?
Thanks

[Yves]

Odd... there should be no difference between AppPath$ and Appdrive$ + Appdir$...