Re: [wxperl-users] Using toolbar buttons and bitmaps with wxPerl

[Mattia B. <mb...@ds...>]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, James Lavery wrote:

>Hi Mattia,
>I want to use a toolbar with buttons in my wxWindows application.  Using
>wxPerl, do the bitmaps for the buttons have to be stored separately on disk,
>and loaded at runtime?  I know that with Tk, one can serialise the image
>into application data, so avoiding the need to distribute the bitmaps
>separately.
You should be able to put XPMs inside the source ( XPMs are just text
files ); I'll post some code when I get home.

>On a similar topic, does wxPerl have the ability to use wxWindows resource
>files for bitmaps (not sure which resource format is currently in vogue with
>wxWindows)?
There are WXR resources, but they are not supported with wxPerl
( and I have no plan to support them, unless someone else implements
  them ). If you are using wxWindows 2.3.x, you can use XRC, that
are newer, better, supported, and support sizers & internationalization.

>Continuing the topic (should probably post this to the wxWindows disc.
>group), is there an appropriate resource builder I can/should use to build
>resource files?
For WXR there is dialoged, for XRC there is wxDesigner ( commercial ),
and a Python base one that should be included in recent wxPython 
distributions. 

HTH
Mattia