If I wanted to put an asset in the resouce folder what is the proper approach to do so?

Do I under onStart() download the asset into the resouce folder if it doesn't exist? Or is there a way to bake the asset into the jar itself?

Thanks. 

I would indeed go with a check in your onStart whether the resources already exist in the data folder or not.

Do they? Load them locally.
Don't they? Grab them from your/a server.

Edited May 15, 20187 yr by Eagle Scripts

With the new API introduced a few client versions back, the proper approach without downloading from the web would be:

In the local script project:
- Create a 'resources' package/folder in the root (not in a sub-package)
- Put resource files in this folder
- Get the resources using Script#getScriptResourceAsStream (provide relative path, eg. "resources/image.png")

On the SDN:
- Put the resources folder at the root level of your script directory

> ScriptName
--> src
----> scriptname.mainpackage
--> resources
----> image.png
----> font.ttf

 

- git root folder
    - scriptname1
        - src
        - resources (for this script)
    - scriptname2
        - src
        - resources (for this script)
    - resources (this is for all scripts)

https://osbot.org/forum/topic/140803-local-and-sdn-resource-loading/