Create files required by application from resource files?

[davethomaspilot]

My application needs some files to executed properly. The files are needed for initialization of an embedded interpreter and the library functions only support passing a filename, not an open file descriptor.

I can have the files live in a known directory, but they could get accidently deleted by accident. I'm wondering if there's a good way to create the files from Qt resources?

I can have a trivial Qt method that copies the files at startup from their resource definitions into temporary files and use the copies.

Is there a better way?

[d_stranz]

Resources are compiled and linked into your program at build time. Are these configuration files constant (i.e. the same for every installation of the program)? If so, then you can just add them as resources in the QRC file and then can use them at runtime just like any other disk-based file. Just open them with the proper resource URL (qrc:///...) or file path (:/...) like you would when loading an icon. No need to copy them to a temporary file.