Re: Binary Files

You can write a wrapper, that takes a one ore more binary files and a text based script and pack it togehter in one executable "package". It will need some coding and you will lose the flexibility. Most complex programs comes with many files and a install routine. If people want to deploy applications with php-gtk we have to write a good instalation program and perhaps some nice way of packing the script and the call to the executalbe into one executable. - Frank > On Sunday 04 March 2001 06:25 pm, you wrote: > > No it will not be possible to use php to create binary files. > > I have used "wrapper" programs for Tcl/Tk. For those who've never used > Tcl/tk, it is a language that does things in much the same way as php-gtk, in > that a binary file parses a text file script. In fact, by itself, Tcl is > text-only, much like php. But with the Tk (toolkit) extension, it is able to > produce graphical programs from a script. It is because of my experience with > Tcl/Tk that I am so excited about php-gtk. > > The wrapper programs I've used simply concatenate the Tcl/Tk script to the > end of an interpreter to produce just one executable file. The smallest > wrapper I've used produced a 600K file, which was small enough for my > purposes. This seems like what we need here. I don't really know why the same > principles wouldn't work. > > For an example, see > http://home.nycap.rr.com/dlabelle/freewrap/freewrap.html . > The source code for this program is available at this link as well. > > Anyone know any reason why this wouldn't work? > > Eric > fenderboy@implode.com > >