store image in the executable

bayo · Post by **bayo** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:52 am

Hi there

I'am very new in working with wxwidgets and this is my first problem. I try to store an image in the executable because i don't want to load id from the filesystem. I would like to store it in string, base64 encoded and create an image from a string stream. But it does not really work

Did someone else such thing, any experiences?

Thanx for all advices!

Dominic

TrV · Post by **TrV** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:13 pm

You have to create a resources file and list your images. Make some research on this forum, there already are lots of topics about this.

Post by **DavidHart** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:29 pm

Hi,

The easiest way, for images that aren't enormous, is to convert your image to an xpm. Then the xpm can be #included. This also has the advantage of being cross-platform.

Many of the samples (that come with the wx source) do this.

Regards,

David

Forest · Post by **Forest** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:24 am

I use wxInclude. It can convert many images in various formats to arrays and create header file with them.
You can read http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Embedding_PNG_Images