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Thanks for your input martin, i have also created one in the past similar to
what you have said and agree with you totally, i think i will go with a
mixture of what i have done in the past mixed with some input from the
replies to my post.
Thanks to all.. Even Mr Hans.

"Martin Moeller" <martin.moeller@moema.it> wrote in message
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> "borland" <rogersmail@ntlworld.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> > He wants these settings and images
> > embeded into the standalone exe file,
>
> I've done something similiar for security in a very remote past. As a
matter
> of fact, you can not open your *own* exe, but you can open any other one.
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> - Include in your exe a global array large enough for your data &
initialize
> the first bytes with a unique string.
> - Write a second program as a short utility, which opens the 'real' exe as
a
> bin file and searches that particular string.
>
> You know the array size: that's the area you can overwrite without
problems.
>
> My utility had also a version related ID and with a proper comand line
> argument would just display the adress. Next step was to set the found
> adress into the utility's source and recompile in order to allow also
> multiple modifications of the same exe, i.e. those not having the original
> search string any more.
>
> Rgds, Martin
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