On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Marc Weustink wrote:
> Vincent Snijders wrote: > > Michael Van Canneyt schreef: > > > > > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:07:42 -0400 > > > > "Alexandre Leclerc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > As posted on another thread: > > > > > http://www.lazarus-resource.com/resource-manager.shtml > > > > > > > > > > I see that this little application is doing exactly what is > > > > > missing > > > > > for an easy RAD way to configure Win32 applications. Now I > > > > > know that > > > > > this is not the same under all OS. But I see no major reasons > > > > > not to > > > > > include this piece of code directly inside Project -> Project > > > > > Options. > > > > > The same information could be used in other projects; like on > > > > > linux. > > > > > .desktop files could be created with information about where > > > > > to find > > > > > the icon, program information, etc. > > > > > > > > > > This is not because Windows is the only OS that put it all in > > > > > the same > > > > > file that we can't do nothing about it on other OS. > > > > > > In fact, Free Pascal suppprts including Windows resources in the > > > binary > > > on all ELF platforms (e.g. linux). The fpcres program does exactly > > > that. > > > > > > {$R somefile.res} > > > > > > will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled > > > even > > > in the fixes branch. > > > > > > In fact, Lazarus could switch now to using this for including form > > > files. > > > This would drastically reduce the memory requirements of all Lazarus > > > applications. > > > > Except for macosx... > > I think for macosx/gtk we still can use the current solution, for all others > we can use real resources. The only reason it works for ELF only is because the implementor didn't have time to implement it for mac. It's quite easy, all you need to do is create some correct binary file with some FPC specific sections in it. That's it. Anyone with knowledge of the mac binary file specs could do it in less than 2 days. Obviously, for windows there is no problem at all. Michael. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
