Question

I want to load AlphaSkin’s Imagelist from resource.
Commonly I know, how to load a normal bitmap, and use in my application.
But there is not help, how to load a prev. stored PNG image into alphaskin imagelist.

The imagelist supports only:
Add(Bitmap…)

methods, but there is no way to load PNG image directly.

I found this function:

AddImageFromRes

But I don’t know, how this working.

May you can know more about this. The general question: how to compile PNG images into the res file to I can get them into Alpha imagelist.

Thanks for your help:
dd

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So: the question have three parts.

I have a PNG icon library, and I want to create resources from some icons.
For example:
The AlphaSkin Button have ImageList property, and I can set the glyph from here.
I want to make my own button, that have my own kinds, with hungarian captions, icons, and mr* kind (mrOk).
For this I need to store the icons.

1.)
How to store PNG to AlphaSkin CAN read it?
I know that RCDATA can hold ANY files, so I can compile them into res file.

2.)
How to I read this previously stored PNG resource?

3.)
I tested this AddImageFromRes function, but I got interesting bugs.
May I do something wrong, or my I need to set something I missed before.
May I need to convert PNG files to “ico”? Is this a possible solution?
Some example can help us…

Thanks for your help:
dd

Answer 1

This was an AlphaSkin bug. Sorry.

dd