howto compile a bitmap in your program?

The best way I think is to drop an image component, load a bitmap on it and set it's visible property to false, then you can use it later at run time, for example

//Store the pitmap in MyHiddenImage TImage component

Image1.Picture.Bitmap.Assign(MyHiddenImage.Picture.Bitmap);

Motaz

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If you do so, the bitmap will be stored in your exe file.

The problem is I am making a Desendant from TComponent and need to store the image in the class... I want to make a Active X Control eventually...

I see, then you have to use another technique which I'm not sure about, may be a resource file, streams and so on, let the experts answer you.

Motaz

another good solution would be to load the image from a webserver, if anyone has an easy to use component to do just that. That would solve my problem too..

you can put bitmap into a res file
and use tresourestream to load it in your program .And if you want make a activex control,may be you should make your control inherited from twincontrol

good luck

hubdog

can you explain some more about that resource file thing...

I have a good example of how to make and use a resource file on my website...
www.drdelphi.com. Look under sample codes and then the snippet is An AVI resource example.... or go directly to:

http://www.drdelphi.com/delphi/right/tips/avires.htm



Good luck!!

Thanx a lot