Hi all
Recently, my code has become a bit "bloated" with inline bitmaps.
Although this causes no problems when run from the native perl
application, when I run my code through PAR/PP (with filters), it causes
the EXE to "fire-up" a lot slower, due to the extra room taken up by the
images, and the overhead of unfiltering and parsing.
I dont want to store the plain bitmaps as files in a directory where the
EXE is located, to prevent them being mangled or replaced by end-users.
Does anyone have any good ideas or tips on how I would securely "pack"
the bitmap files (various sizes and color depths) all into one large
disk file (e.g. "data.dat") and then extract them by name from my code
at run time? There are several way I can think of doing this, but was
wondering if anyone has any preferences or ideas about where I should
start with this.
Many thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated.
Steve
