[Gambas-user] frx busting code

[Rob]

OK, I took another stab at busting open some .frx files tonight.  
Frx files are the binary resource files accompanying VB .frm 
files, most often containing icons and other pictures.  The net 
result is, I have

- a perl script that'll burst an frx file into a bunch of .dat 
files (you can use the file command to tell what kind of file 
each is)

- a static Gambas function that, given a frm file and an offset 
into the accompanying frx file and a directory in which to dump 
the result, will extract one specific file from an frx.  
(Pictures are stored in .frm files as frxname.frx:FFFF where 
FFFF is the offset in hex.)

I have about 20 .frx files locally from an assortment of old 
VB5/VB6 projects, and the above code seems pretty reliable so 
far.  Please send me .frx files that it barfs on, along with the 
accompanying .frm file.  I don't have VB locally but at this 
point I don't think I really need it.

I am working on porting my old perl frm2form to gambas 1.9.x 
using gb.pcre, but that's as far as I go for tonight ;)

Rob





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