[Qt-interest] How to avoid absolute file locations

[Brad Hards]

On Saturday 10 January 2009 03:12:42 pm Samuel G wrote:
> Embedding the file as a resource is the most promising. You are
> suggesting to replace the data file (in the example) with:
>
> const char * const MYDATA = {
>     "2\n"
>     "3\n"
> };
> ...
>     QTextStream in(MYDATA);
>
> This is nice for icons. It is also all right for the 3D models,
> but it is a bit tedious for larger images.
This is sort-of what I meant, but the implementation is a bit different.

Qt comes with support for embedding resources (in particular, a resource 
compiler that will take the path to the image and link it in, and a special 
syntax for referring to linked objects). You don't have to do the data file 
conversion by hand.

See http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/resources.html

Brad