Embedding resources

The Embed() expression may be used for embedding files and media into the program. Its default behavior is to return a data: (for small files) or external URL (for large files).

Embed("thumb.webp")

Note: When returning an external URL, implementations such as JET™ use the app:// scheme to fetch a file in the application's installation directory.

Note: Implementations may support an artifact path interpolation, as in:

Embed("{target}/auto.generated")

That is useful when a build script is involved that generates files at the artifact path.

Including statically

The user may embed files statically as either text/plain or application/text (String), or application/octet-stream (ByteArray), rather than obtaining a URL.

Embed("data.txt", static="text/plain")
Embed("data.bin", static="application/octet-stream")