Thread: How to include in c program ?

Ehm what do you actually want to do? Embed a piece of art in your code, or provide said piece of art by using an external file?

In most cases, what you would like to do is to use an external file (jpeg, bmp, wav or midi for example) and display or play it. If that's what you want to do, then first of all, you probably need to have SOME programming experience, and your question seems to indicate that you haven't got much of that - maybe some simpler tasks to practice on would help.

Playing sound is actually not that hard, it only requires a few lines of code. Displaying an image is a tad harder.

If you want to embed the image/sound in your file, then you will have to find a way to convert your image into a byte-array and then form the relevant data structures from that byte-array, rather than reading from the file.

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Mats

WHY is it that everyone is using Turbo C 15 years after it came out? Yes, it _WAS_ a good product at it's time, just like Ford Model T's where good cars at the time they were actively produced.

I don't think there's a MP3 player built into the Windows API, so you either need to convert it to a wave-form, or find some library that provides the functionality, and there's CERTAINLY none in DOS [To do that in DOS, you'd need to ALSO send a waveform to the soundcard].

Displaying pictures in DOS involves graphics programming. I don't know for sure if the Borland Graphics library supports 32-bit graphics. Again, it's much easier if you can use Windows rather than DOS. Then it becomes abotu 10 lines of program to display a picture.

Adding the sound/picture to the program itself will of course add anything up to millions of lines, depending on format and the size of the actual datafile you are adding. This is another point where Turbo C won't hack it - it's got 64KB limits that you'll have to work hard to overcome, when it comes to modern files.

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Mats