Re: Inbedding Image Data ?

[Shaun McCance <shaunm wolfram com>]

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 17:51, Peter Moscatt wrote:
> I am creating an app using Gnome/Gtk/Anjuta.  This app has a toolbar
> with a number of buttons with custom images.
>
> The image is called within the code.  If the XPM file dosen't exist in
> the correct location then the image isn't displayed in the button.
>
> Is there a way I can convert the image into data which then I can inbed
> into my code ?

XPM is a text format, suitable for inclusion in C.  Open any XPM file in
your text editor of choice and you'll see the format.  You can write
this data directly into your source code, and then create the pixmap
with gdk_pixmap_create_from_xpm_d.  See 

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk

--
Shaun