On 29/4/00 1:40 am, Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is clear that if you make a background with an image as one of the
> controls that use of that background over multiple cards does not increase
> the file size of the stack. But, if you ungroup the controls, select and
> copy one of them (and image of considerable size, say 50 K), then regroup to
> keep the background, then go to another card that does not use that
> background and then paste the object (in this case, that same imported
> image) are we adding the size of that object i.e. 50K more to the file size
> of the stack by using that object twice? or is it just a second "display
> only instance" of a single binary object which in this case just doesn't
> happened to be grouped into a background.
You are making a copy in this instance. Don't do this! Just fileName
images (which you can copy because they contain no data) or button icons
instead.
Regards,
Kevin
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