Re: [wxperl-users] Problem loading Icon information from memory

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:17:12 +0200
Peter Gordon <pe...@pg...> wrote:

  Hi,

> I am using pp (the perl packager) to build an executable perl program
> for distribution.
> 
> I need access to an icon from the distribution, so I get the contents
> and add the file to the MemoryFsHandler. From there, I try to install
> the icon using Wx:Icon::LoadFile. On startup, the program complains that
> the icon  "memory:my.ico" is not available.D oes Wx:Icon::LoadFile allow
> files to be added via VFS. If not, how do I add an Icon?
> 
> 
> This is a small segment of the code:
> 
>     Wx::FileSystem::AddHandler( Wx::MemoryFSHandler->new );
>     Wx::MemoryFSHandler::AddTextFile( 'my.ico',  $iconFile);
>     $result = $icon->LoadFile("memory:my.ico",wxBITMAP_TYPE_ICO) ;

  You can't use LoadFile with VFS. You can use an in-memory filehandle
(open my $fh, '<', \$iconFile) and pass that filehandle to LoadFile.
You can also use IO::Scalar or similar.

HTH
Mattia