I know the compiled arduino sketch gets uploaded to the device's flash memory. Is there any way to include image files from the source (ie: add it to the sketch) and have them also included and referenceable in the runtime? Consider pushing an image to a display or serving images and javascript files via an embedded config web server page. I don't want to encode them in long strings and I don't want to have to include a separate flash card - I want it included in my compiled sketch. This would be similar to an embedded resource in a c++ project on Windows.
Image data can be included in any program, for example as a initialized byte array.
I don't want to encode them in long strings
That is what an initialized array accomplishes. There are website calculators that create the code for you.
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I wish this MKR wifi 1010 board had SPIFFS support. I could then treat it like a file system. It would be easier to upload more complex files - say jquery or many standard libraries. I am surprised none of the web server libraries cover a file system. Here is what I see for the ESP8266 implementations.
Switch to the ESP32, for which there are two file systems.
The Arduino IDE has no mechanism for including image files in code.
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Would having raw data created from the image file as an #include satisfy?
I have taken your recommendation and have delved into ESP32 world. I now see why you recommend this. Thank you for that helpful suggestion. I believe this is the microcontroller I will be more successful on. There are a lot more web server and iot projects based on that controller.
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