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  • Special case: ".WDD" file (analysis description)
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Extracts a resource from the application into a physical device location.
Remarks:
  • Windows In WINDEV applications or WEBDEV sites, the resource to extract must be:
    • in the "Other" category of the Project explorer pane,
    • in the main library of the application (WDL file).
Caution: To prevent piracy, WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile elements (reports, windows, etc.) cannot be extracted at runtime.
Example
Syntax
<Result> = fExtractResource(<Resource name> [, <Destination>])
<Result>: Boolean
  • True if the resource was extracted,
  • False otherwise. If an error occurs, the ErrorOccurred variable is set to True. To get more details on the error, use ErrorInfo.
<Resource name>: Character string
Name of resource to extract (file name with its extension).
Windows The resource to extract must be found in the main application library (WDL file). The library must have not been loaded by LoadWDL.
<Destination>: Optional character string
Windows Full path of destination file.
If the directory exists, the resource is directly extracted into this directory.
The directory is created if it does not exist.
If this parameter is not specified or if it corresponds to an empty string (""), the resource will be extracted into the application data directory (returned by fDataDir) in a file named like the resource.
The destination file will be overwritten if it already exists before the extraction.
Remarks

Special case: ".WDD" file (analysis description)

An analysis description (".WDD" file) integrated to the library of an application cannot be extracted.
To extract a file from a library that cannot be extracted by fExtractResource, you can use an HFSQL data file integrated in the library.
Component: wd290vm.dll
Minimum version required
  • Version 16
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Last update: 11/14/2022

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