"set the externals" routine for enhanced QT no longer working

[Richard Miller]

Thanks.



Trevor DeVore wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
>
>> Used to work fine. But that's not important. What do you suggest I do 
>> to get it working now? I'd prefer to have one standalone file. That 
>> was the reason for putting the binary data into the custom property 
>> to begin with... to avoid a separate DLL file to download.
>
> I'm not sure how it could of worked unless the engine has an 
> undocumented feature whereby it can load the binary data of an 
> external. If it does then that would be very cool. I've never heard of 
> that before though.
>
>> Sounds like you are saying the below routine would work fine if I 
>> simply included the DLL as a separate file and avoided the custom 
>> property/variable approach.
>
> You have to point 'the externals' property to a file on disk. You 
> could try spitting out your binary data into a file in the temp 
> directory and then assigning the externals property of the stack to 
> that temp file.
>