Re: loading pixmaps from the C source

["Vivien Malerba" <vmalerba gmail com>]

2008/10/22 Henri Häkkinen <henrih81 gmail com>

> Hello,
>
> I am writing a simple GTK+ 2.0 application which uses the GNU build system.
> The application opens a status icon on the system tray area and the icon is
> loaded from a image file. By default, the icon gets installed to the usual
> location (/usr/local/$PACKAGE/pixmaps), but the user may choose to install
> the package to some other place by using --prefix etc. configure script
> options.
>
> What is the correct way of opening image files from the C source then? How
> do I know where the look for the installed data files?


I do this myself by getting the specified install path in the Makefile.am
file as #defines and using the path in the C code. For example see
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libgnomedb/trunk/extra/Makefile.am?view=log

Also I've found that this method has its limit if the user actually installs
or copies the compiled version somewhere else, or if you want to compile for
Windows or Mac OS, in which case you can use a "binreloc" layer. For example
see http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libgnomedb/trunk/libgnomedb/binreloc/.

Regards,

Vivien


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