# Resources

You may have noticed in the section on [Script dialogs](https://github.com/Chaoses-Ib/DirectoryOpus/blob/main/Manual/scripting/resources/script_dialogs/README.md) that scripts can have “resources” associated with them. This is XML-formatted data that provides resources to the script but doesn’t actually form part of the script code.

### Defining resources

There are two ways a script can define resources:

* Script resources can be included at the end of the script code itself. A separator line marks the boundary between script code and resources, like this:

  ```
  If BlahBlah Then
  BlahBlah Blah
  End If
  ==SCRIPT RESOURCES
  <resources>
  <resource name="blah1" type="dialog">
  <dialog blah blah>
  </dialog>
  </resource>
  <resource name="blah2" type="dialog">
  <dialog blah blah>
  </dialog>
  </resource>
  <resource type="strings">
  <strings lang="blah">
  <string id="blah" text="Blah!" />
  </strings>
  </resource>
  </resources>
  ```

  Everything before the line `==SCRIPT RESOURCES` is considered part of the script code, and everything after it is the XML-formatted resources.
* Script resources can be loaded from an external file, or a raw XML string, using the [**Script**](https://chaoses-ib.gitbook.io/directory-opus/manual/reference/scripting_reference/scripting_objects/script)**.LoadResources** method. Note that if the script is included in a package the resource file must have *.odxml* as a file extension.

### Resource types

There are two types of script resource currently in use, dialogs and strings. You generally don't need to edit the resources directly:

* In the script editor, resources are edited graphically using either the dialog or string editors and the XML definitions are hidden
* In the button editor, the resource definitions are split out onto a separate tab to make it easier to work with. You can edit dialogs using the GUI editor - only string resources in a button need to be edited as XML.