Re: Inbedding Image Data ?

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Shaun McCance <shaunm wolfram com> writes:

> 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

Rather than use that, you prolly want to use 'gdk-pixbuf-csource' which
can create raw data that you can load with gdk-pixbuf.  More info at:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-creating.html

Also, gdk-pixbuf-csource has a man page.

Good luck,
-Jonathan