1. resource kit, check this out!
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.
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Please tell me how to create icons from data in memory?
Thanx Jordah Ferguson
jorfergie03 at yahoo.com
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