Re: compiling pixbufs into an executable

[Roel Vanhout <roel riks nl>]

Heh funny, that was one of the first things I wondered when I went the 
other way (Linux -> MFC) :)

I think what you want is xpm (http://koala.ilog.fr/lehors/xpm.html, but 
google for more links). I've only used it to display bitmaps though, I'm 
not sure but I think one could use it for icons as well. Cursors will be 
harder, I think it has not been long since it became possible to use 
other cursors than the stock X cursors so I don't know how to do it and 
if there are libraries that will allow one to read cursors from xpm's. 
There is no such thing as 'string table' support on Linux. (there are 
libraries of course that provide the same sort of functionality).

Oh and you can create xpm's with Gimp for example, but I think all Unix 
graphics packages have some form of support for it. Your Linux 
distribution probably provides some command-line utilities to convert 
gif's and png's to xpm.

Hope that helps.


cheers,

roel




Bob Caryl wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I am on old Win32 MFC programmer who has been tasked with porting one of
> my companys products to Linux.
>
> One of the things that I used to do in windows was include small images
> into the executable as resources to avoid having to make sure all the
> little files were included in the distribution.
>
> So far, I have not found anything in the gtkmm world that is analoguous
> to this practice.  Is there any way to do this?
>
> Just a link to a page that illustrates it is all I need.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bob Caryl
>
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