Stephen W. Meeley
31-May-2006, 11:15 AM
David,
Suggestion noted.
If you do use a lot of common bitmaps and icons across many executables
and the size is truly an issue, you can still choose not to compile them
into the .exe files. You can elect to have them load from a common
bitmaps folder (the same way things were done before the ability to
compile them into the exe was introduced). That does still work.
Best regards,
-SWM-
-----Original Message-----
From: David Martinko [mailto:RedeemedSoftware@Hotmail.com]
Posted At: Friday, May 26, 2006 11:05 PM
Posted To: product-direction
Conversation: Resource DLL
Subject: Resource DLL
I wonder if it would be possible to add a feature that would allow us to
compile some code into a DLL.
Having the ability to compile all the bitmaps and icons into the EXE is
neat... but it becomes a nightmare in adding more size to EVERY exe we
make.
It would be nice if we could create a resource dll which could contain
the
bitmaps and icons we want to use in all our exe's.
Some people create 1 big huge EXE file to run their software... others
like
to have 200 exe's that are called from a main menu exe. The downside is
that
even a small application has a lot of overhead. While it may not improve
load time, it would reduce the installer size and make it faster to
transfer
files (when just a new exe is required).
--
David Martinko
248-535-7495
Tracker Systems, Inc.
Redeemed Software
Redeemed Hosting
www.trackersys.com
www.redeemedsoftware.com
www.redeemedhosting.com
Proud member of the Northeast DataFlex Consortium: (NEDC)
www.NEDataFlex.com
Suggestion noted.
If you do use a lot of common bitmaps and icons across many executables
and the size is truly an issue, you can still choose not to compile them
into the .exe files. You can elect to have them load from a common
bitmaps folder (the same way things were done before the ability to
compile them into the exe was introduced). That does still work.
Best regards,
-SWM-
-----Original Message-----
From: David Martinko [mailto:RedeemedSoftware@Hotmail.com]
Posted At: Friday, May 26, 2006 11:05 PM
Posted To: product-direction
Conversation: Resource DLL
Subject: Resource DLL
I wonder if it would be possible to add a feature that would allow us to
compile some code into a DLL.
Having the ability to compile all the bitmaps and icons into the EXE is
neat... but it becomes a nightmare in adding more size to EVERY exe we
make.
It would be nice if we could create a resource dll which could contain
the
bitmaps and icons we want to use in all our exe's.
Some people create 1 big huge EXE file to run their software... others
like
to have 200 exe's that are called from a main menu exe. The downside is
that
even a small application has a lot of overhead. While it may not improve
load time, it would reduce the installer size and make it faster to
transfer
files (when just a new exe is required).
--
David Martinko
248-535-7495
Tracker Systems, Inc.
Redeemed Software
Redeemed Hosting
www.trackersys.com
www.redeemedsoftware.com
www.redeemedhosting.com
Proud member of the Northeast DataFlex Consortium: (NEDC)
www.NEDataFlex.com