OpenEuphoria

Packaging Icons for distribution

• Posted by Dave Probert <zingo at purpletiger.com> Nov 19, 2004
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Ok, this is probably a simple to answer question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway :)

Is there a standard way of packaging a lot of small icons, as used within
buttons in a win32lib app, into a single resource-like file?
I currently have a separate directory with the .ico's in, but it's really a
messy distribution option IMHO.  I would prefer to either incorporate the icons
into the exe or have a single virtual file thing that I can load the icons from. 
I'm currently using addIcon(extractIcon("..file..")) to append the individual
files to a imageList sequence for later use with ListViews, TreeViews, etc.  And
I also refer to the files directly for PictureButton's during the create call.
Is there a better, neater way of doing this?

Please don't say "use a resource editor from Visual Studio.." or suchlike - I'm
only using Euphoria, UltraEdit and Photoshop to develop this :)

I thought about an XPM pack/include, but I'm not to hot on how to convert the
ico's across.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

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