data2pas 0.4.0 released

[BigChimp]

Nice... but I'll give it a pass - manually copying works for me with about 3 repos and a file that changes infrequently...

[CaptBill]

Hi Yamer,
Do you or anyone know all the steps to embed executables, so we can 'wrap' a program and add a layer of features?

I want to do this for a microcontroller bootloader/rom flasher utility app called 'bossac', if possible.

I found:
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,8730.msg42197.html#msg42197

Is it that simple?

Thanks

[yamer]

Do you or anyone know all the steps to embed executables, so we can 'wrap' a program and add a layer of features?

With my data2pas program you can embed any data you want in a pascal program. It should work with a dynamic library or un object file. But the problem is to run the embeded code. This is probably very system dependant and I have no idea on how to do that.   

[CaptBill]

Hi Yamer,
As a matter of fact, data2pas would be good to do what I want with bossac: copy it to a directory and process files there with one click. Could I make a feature request to simply process all found files in a directory?

That way you can work on graphics for skinning type stuff and copy data2pas to the directory and double click and process all found files.

Thanks,
Bill

[yamer]

As a matter of fact, data2pas would be good to do what I want with bossac: copy it to a directory and process files there with one click. Could I make a feature request to simply process all found files in a directory?

I see no reason to add such a feature. You can already do this with a script.

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data2pas *.d2t

Unfortunately it will not work under Windows. But I have already corrected that and I will soon release a new version.

[Roland57]

Nice program! I compiled it and executed it successfully under Windows 8.1.

[yamer]

Nice program!

Thanks.

[vfclists]

According to the data2pas docs integer constants are limited from 0 - 255. Is there some reason why?

Integer constants are limited in the range [0..255]. Like in pascal they can be written in decimal format, hexadecimal format (with $), octal format (with &) and binary format (with .

[yamer]

According to the data2pas docs integer constants are limited from 0 - 255. Is there some reason Why?

Yes. Data generated by data2pas can be : strings, arrays of char, arrays of byte. For these 3 types, the smallest element is in range [0..255].

[vfclists]

According to the data2pas docs integer constants are limited from 0 - 255. Is there some reason Why?

Yes. Data generated by data2pas can be : strings, arrays of char, arrays of byte. For these 3 types, the smallest element is in range [0..255].

Thinking of it that makes sense, as data2pas is for encoding strings and binary data which are 8-bit character or byte based types.