1. resource kit, check this out!
- Posted by jordah ferguson <jorfergie03 at yahoo.com> Apr 02, 2002
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Hi all, I am creating a new interface to David Cuny's resource binder for compatibility with win32lib for almost unlimited resources. David Cuny only added rReadBmp() which made many people think that his resource kit was for only BMP files. So i have decided to extend his resource kit for win32 applications and most importantly win32lib applications. 1) I have added BMP read from resources using an enhanced loadBmpFromFile2(). it is about 50% faster than D.Cunys.This was already done by Wolf, but wolf didn't do much about memory management. i use trackObject() to tag resources freeing memory. 2)I have added loading of AVI files from resources. 3)I have added loading of WAV files from resources. all the above routines load resources directly from resources to memory. this makes them lightning fast. The main reason i wrote this email was about addition of the ICON interface. At the moment, the only method working is, i'm loading the icons from the resources straight to temporary files from which the icons are loaded to memory using extractIcon, the technique is fast, atleast faster than Andrea Cinis it takes 3.04 seconds to load 39 icons (total 106 kB) on a 486 machine. This might sound reasonably fast but i know it is still terribly slow. i read something in the win32hlp saying you could use CreateIconIndirect,GetIconInfo and ICONINFO structure to load from icon data in memory. i have tried it and it fails. ----Long Intro Please tell me how to create icons from data in memory? Thanx Jordah Ferguson jorfergie03 at yahoo.com --Processed and saved using: Cirrus Mail ver 0.2a