Geosoft GX Developer 8.5

Distributing your Custom GX files and menus

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Nov 16, 2015

The Custom Resource Pack Generator is an application that will package your custom GX files and all of the associated files, such as, the OMN, GER and CSV files. The Custom Resource Pack Generator will assign the same structure as the Resource file directory in Oasis montaj and package them into a single resource pack file (.resource_pack) for distribution. This resource pack file can be applied in Oasis montaj 8.1 or higher through the Help|Install Custom Module menu. The mandatory fields are Author, Description and Version.

The Custom Resource Pack Generator can be found in the following location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Geosoft\GX Developer\redist\bin\GeosoftFiles\bin

Custom Resource Pack Generator dialog options

Input Folder

Select the import folder location. This is the location of the folder that contains the child Resource Folders (e.g., omn, ger, gx, csv).
Note: Not all of the folders of the ResourceFiles directory need to be present, only the folders that will be updated.

Output File 

Specify the name and location of the output resource pack (.resource_pack) file.

Version

Specify the version of the resource pack file. This becomes important for updating files in subsequent Custom Resource Packs as a new resource pack version must be higher than the previous. 
Note: The version must use numbers only.

Name

Specify a name to assign to the Custom Resource Pack.

Author

Specify the author/creator of the resource pack file.

Description

Specify a description of what is in the resource pack.

The Name, Author, Version and Description information will all be available to the end user installing the resource pack (.resource_pack) to show that the resource pack is signed.

An example of the Custom Resource Pack Generator input folder:

Geosoft GX Developer 8.5