RE: [DUG]: TPicture and its stored data.

[Myles Penlington]

Yep, Any file can be included as a resource and then loaded from a TResourceStream.

 

Myles.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stacey Verner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 3:59 p.m.
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: [DUG]: TPicture and its stored data.

I just found out that a TPicture always stores its data as a bmp.

 

I create an Image and save it as a nice small JPG (80 K), and then load it into a TPicture on a Delphi form (lets say, a Splash screen) and suddenly the DFM is 1.3 meg, and the resulting exe is 1.7 meg.

 

Is there any way to get a TPicture to store its data in the raw imported format?

Is there any other way of doing this (resources?)?

 

I know that I could load the JPG at run time but that means another file to deliver which could easilty be deleted (especially if the user is anything like me...).

 

Stacey

 

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