> Sorry guys, I looked more deeply and found there was a caching > mechanism deep in the processing of bmp files. The bmp file and its > name are kept and if you re-use the name, PowerPro uses a memory > copy of the bitmap. > The reasoning was > - make it faster to show bitmaps for menus > - avoid having multiple copies of bitmap when used in multiple > places (eg for button background on skin)
If file size and date stamp on the file were added to the check for duplicate wouldn't that be enough to cause the cache to see there's new info and reload (instead of just file name)? Not sure if it's Bruce code, or windows code that's doing the check though. Seems like a better option than having to know about a nocache text match in the path to make it not load out of the cache. I can see others asking in the future why their backgrounds aren't changing and then us having to explain about the workaround :) The less workarounds, the better. David Troesch | Atlanta, GA | ICQ# 2333123 Aah, passive censorship by the mega-medias in the US. How democratic! http://tinyurl.com/7yj3a Funstuff: Will work for bandwidth. Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
