Additional files - include files & folders into your application

Applies to:
Working with BrowserBob

 
Additional files to be included with your standalone application can be added via View ->Additional Files. A dialog box appears where you can add files of any type to your project.

Files added here will be included with your application during the "build" process. The 'root' folder for additional files in your finished application will be in the folder "Additional" in the installation directory of the application.

 

Example: a file named "start.html" would be placed in directory: <_CurrentDir_>\Additional\start.html

Important Tip: Specify your additional files here before you create links in your application.

How to link your additional files
with your project and test it, is explained in the
Additional file reference

 

Creating a directory structure of your choice with unlimited subdirectories:
You can include additional files in a directory structure of your choice. How you add and manage your additional files is explained under: Additional files window

Important note: every time you test your project all additional files will be copied to a temporary folder for testing. This means, if you have huge amounts of additional files, this may take quite a while. The same applies to the compilation of single exe files or setups when building.

TIP:
A possible solution for using additional files in big projects, is to only include the important entry pages and media into the additional files structure and linking the rest of the assets from there. So you can use the parameter selection and also have a working test application - but not all files need to be copied when testing...

Another possibility for professional Multimedia CD's with large amounts of additional data is to enter relative links manually, seen from the later working directory of the application on the CD.

Related topics:
Additional files

Additional files window
File structure of BrowserBob applications

Creating multimedia CD/DVDs

Finish your application - the build function