Xcode Resources VST

[mjdav]

I'm not sure if this is a straightforward problem or not, but...

I am building a VST where the plugin is dependant on a few .raw files containing audio samples.
When I build this plugin, it works fine as these files are on my computer, however if I take this to another computer the plugin doesn't function properly as these files aren't there.

I know the resources folder in Xcode if used for GUI bitmaps. Can this be done with with .raw files? Is it just a simple case of dragging them into my resources folder?

Basically, I need the files to be part of the VST so that when I take it to another computer only the .vst is required.
Not sure how to go about doing this?

Thanks,
Matthew

[hibrasil]

yes, that should work, but it might be easier to write a little program to serialize the raw file and stick the data in an array a text file [edit] that you compile with your plugin

oli

[mjdav]

Thanks Hibrasil,

I've got a file testFile.raw in resources but when I open it using fopen, it says it couldn't be found
I've used this to get the CWD, but not sure where to go from here.

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#ifdef __APPLE__    
	CFBundleRef mainBundle = CFBundleGetMainBundle();
	CFURLRef resourcesURL = CFBundleCopyResourcesDirectoryURL(mainBundle);
	
	char path[PATH_MAX];
	if(!CFURLGetFileSystemRepresentation(resourcesURL, TRUE, (UInt8*)path, PATH_MAX)) {
		printf("CWD Error");
	}
	
	CFRelease(resourcesURL);
	chdir(path);
	printf("\nCWD = %s\n", path);
#endif

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Matthew

[hibrasil]

looks to me like you are looking inside the main bundle, which would be the host's app bundle not the plugin's.

in objective-c you can do something like

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  NSBundle* pBundle = [NSBundle bundleWithIdentifier:ToNSString("com.me.myplugin")];

there is probably an alternative CF* function you can use

oli

[mjdav]

I've managed to locate my resource file and get the path to it

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	FSRef file2Read;
	CFBundleRef requestedBundle = CFBundleGetBundleWithIdentifier(CFSTR("com.__MyCompanyName__.myPlugIn"));
	CFURLRef testPath = CFBundleCopyResourceURL(requestedBundle, CFSTR("audioSamples.raw"), NULL, NULL);
	
	Boolean openedSuccessfully = CFURLGetFSRef(testPath, &file2Read);
	
	if(testPath !=NULL && openedSuccessfully)
		printf("Yes!");
	if(testPath == NULL && !openedSuccessfully)
		printf("No!");

I get a "Yes!" printed to my console window.

I have now decided to approach a different route, this was too over the top for what I'm doing.