Compiling images statically

selles · Post by **selles** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:44 am

Hi all,

I would like to know if there is a method to compile images within a program..
like this, it won't be necessary a .bmp file for example..

Thanks,

Selles

lowjoel · Post by **lowjoel** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:49 am

use resource files if you are under Windows. Cpp's wxMSWResources on wxCode should help you retrieve that resource.

Joel

selles · Post by **selles** » Mon May 22, 2006 1:57 am

Thank you for the explanation Joel

metalogic · Post by **metalogic** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:00 am

For a cross platform solution, you can look at XPM images. Those are compiled right into your C++ program under all platforms.

Vexator · Post by **Vexator** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:28 am

is there a cross-platform solution for other file formats like png? (for alpha map support)

lowjoel · Post by **lowjoel** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:59 am

Otherwise, convert to a char* array (and include it into your header file, there's a utility, bin2c that does it), then use wxMemoryInputStream + wxImage (use the wxInputStream ctor) to get the iamge loaded

Post by **upCASE** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:15 am

Hi!
I guess lowjoel refers to this solution:
http://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?t=214

selles · Post by **selles** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:35 pm

Thank you peoples,

I'm very happy for the help!!!

!!!

Selles

Post by **tierra** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:15 pm

Vexator wrote:is there a cross-platform solution for other file formats like png? (for alpha map support)

Yes, it works pretty close to the same as XPMs:
http://wxwiki.org/Embedding_PNG_Images

metalogic · Post by **metalogic** » Tue May 23, 2006 3:39 pm

selles wrote:Thank you peoples,

I'm very happy for the help!!! !!!

Selles

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helgihg · Post by **helgihg** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:18 pm

selles wrote:Hi all,

I would like to know if there is a method to compile images within a program..
like this, it won't be necessary a .bmp file for example..

Thanks,

Selles

You can find an example of compiling XPM images directly into the binary itself and use it with wxWidgets in my file manager, Jaffm. It's at http://jaffm.binary.is. I can't remember where I got the code myself, but I probably looked it up in the image sample that comes with wxWidgets although I frankly can't remember.

Seems like you already found the answer, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to have an extra source.

Edit: It's GPL, but you hereby have my "written" permission to use the image code with whatever license you choose, in case someone realizes that I'm actually encouraging you to use GPL code without knowing what license you plan on using. I'm planning on switching to LGPL or BSD anyway. Regardless, you hereby have my permission.

selles · Post by **selles** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:13 am

Very well!!!:D

I got a great learning here

Thanks for all

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