Hi, i am developing a game and i have some questions to ask. First, i want to make a visual c application to let the user change various aspects of the game like resolution etc. How can i call this exe from inside my game( i have two .exe''s on for the game and one for the configuring application) Second i have some data files (bmp''s).Is there a way to add them as resources to the executable? Is this a good way to "hide" them or the game will be slower? I am using Visual studio. You can find the game at http://www.angelfire.com/on3/ironhell3index/HellWorld.html Thanks a lot!

a good idea would be to put the graphics/other settings at the beginning of the game, similar to nehe''s basecode... check out the basecode to see how its done :D

Basecode? what basecode? you mean the v2 one?

To include resources in visual studio, follow this thread that I started:

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=92264

"Basecode? what basecode? you mean the v2 one?"

this basecode... http://nehe.gamedev.net/nehegl2.asp

Ok, thanks for your help.
I think i understood the dialog resource from basecode2 and i hope i understood the graphics resource from jeeky''s url , although i didn''t understand what type is in
type *pData = static_cast(LockResource(hGlobal));
Thanks again!

http://www.angelfire.com/on3/ironhell3index/HellWorld.html

Apparently you didn''t read all of jeeky''s post:

"Note: "type" means a data type, such as char, float, etc."

Yes , i read that, but i did not understand it.What has to do with adding an image as a resource?

You can make the dialog to select resolution a different app, then write the settings to a file, then you use the function WinExec to start up your engine, and in your engine you load in the settings from the file.

Thanks! I will try it!