[RE: [Re: [lazarus] How are we going to store component data?]]

[Cliff Baeseman]

What is in the gtk rc files. Is this something we might be able to use?

Cliff
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey A. Wormsley <daworm at cdc.net>
To: lazarus at miraclec.com <lazarus at miraclec.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [RE: [Re: [lazarus] How are we going to store component data?]]


>>This will not work for TBitmaps and so on. How will you specify the bitmap
>>in pascal code ???
>
>A constant array?  Same for any other data such as audio, but I assume
>there may be limits on how big these structures can be.  Or, I suppose, it
>may be possible to link in raw binary data directly into the executable.  I
>used to do this a long time ago in TP.  I would build my screens in an
>editor that saved its data in the same format as the text video memory
>(character attribute / character pairs) then save it to disk.  I would then
>run a bin2obj utility, and declare a variable that used the external
>directive (I think, it may have been a procedure, just one you couldn't
>call!) and link the obj file into the exe.  The code accessed the data
>through the pointer to this data and simply copied the screen from code
>space directly into video memory.  It was extremely fast, much faster than
>drawing the screen in code.  I'll have to dig up some of those old prjects
>tomorrow and see how much of that technique could be applicable here.
>
>>I think we should make some resource compiler after all. We'll need it
>>anyhow. On windows we can simply use Windows resources; on other platforms
>>we can do something else.
>
>Is there anything inherent in a linux executable that would preclude using
>the windows style resource information?  I would assume that it would be
>easier to adapt the windows scheme to linux than develop a new scheme from
>scratch.  Not that the way windows does it is the best, but I can see some
>advantages.  For one, the resource files that are -not- managed by the ide
>would be identical for both platforms, and would require no conversion when
>migrating Delphi code.
>
>Just thoughts,
>  Jeff.
>
>
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