Wow Microsoft's image list is really crap.... 25 bmp's all sized at 226k width 240 x height 320 made my exe file size 10 megs along with a 4 minute compile time clearly will not work....
I've saved my bmp's to jpg format and compiled them into a resource file with resource id 1 - 25 and wrote a procedure to load them from my exe file and final outcome is an exe file size of only 800 k... Simple Test Of MS's Control... I placed an imagelist component on my form changed imagelist width to 240 and height to 320 and loaded one bmp file size 226k and compiled without using the imagelist at all in my exe and the file size grew from 525k to an astounding 1.7 megs by just placing one little bmp in that imagelist component of which was never used in my exe file.... Overall TJpgImgList will not use Microsoft's Image List Control because of several reasons, The birth of a better imagelist component might be on the horizon :)_ I haven't quite figured out the best methods for storing the images to be included in the exe file... The reason for this component was for a tetris game I wrote where each level had a new background image upon completion of each level... I used my quick and dirty method of building a res file with the jpg's and compiling into my exe and loading the images with a custom written procedure... Finished File Size 823k and the game will save out the jpg's after there displayed... A Client request Sorry for the long post but I wish I knew this information before taking on this project...TJpgImgList is Still Under Construction.... Kind Regards... Eric Daniels _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
