OpenEuphoria

Re: Toolbar Button System

• Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> Aug 16, 2004
• 517 views

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> cklester wrote:
> > 
> > For the love of all that's holy, does anybody who uses Windows have a
> > way to easily manage or use icons for buttons? 
> 
> What exactly are the issues you are finding?

Extracting button images from bitmaps containing multiple button images.

However, I'm going the route of XPMs, as they seem to be tons easier.

I looked at the GENERIC.EXW demo and it helped A LOT.

> Sounds like a fair enough project. I'll put it onto my
> to-do-sometime-I get-a-spare-moment list.

Don't you dare! All your spare moments should be for family and
Win32Lib (then come friends, work, etc.). heheh. :P

> Sort of. There are three sets of XPM icon files in the demo folder...
> 
>  tbar_xpm.e
>  tool_xpm.e
>  xpm_icon.e

Yes, this was exactly what I was looking for! Don has some nice-looking
button images in his Nexus editor, also, but using the XPM files seems
to be the easiest way to go and not have external resource files (that is,
bitmap files) required (meaning, I can include the images directly
in my program).

Now, are there libraries for XPM images?! You'd think there would be,
but I've googled from here to eternity-1 and haven't found any!!!

-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/