[Tutor] compiled images

[Fred Lionetti]

Hi everyone,

Thanks everyone for the help with lambda expressions!  Your
suggestions and discussions were great!

I've got another question I think you may have come across before. 
I'm planning on purchasing a license to use some stock icons in an
application I'm developing.  The problem is the license requires this:

Where an application is to be distributed, the graphical media must
be compiled into the application binary file or its associated data
files, documentation files, or components.

Anyone have any idea as to how I could basically compile all my
artwork into a data file for a python application?  Would this require
compiling them into a *.dll/*.so?  It seems like there must be any
easier way--Also, I need my application to work on windows + linux
(and mac).

Any suggestions/experience would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Fred
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Re: [Tutor] compiled images

[Liam Clarke-Hutchinson]

Hehe, 

Sounds like someone's license was designed for C/C++.




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Hi everyone,

Thanks everyone for the help with lambda expressions!  Your suggestions and
discussions were great!

I've got another question I think you may have come across before. 
I'm planning on purchasing a license to use some stock icons in an
application I'm developing.  The problem is the license requires this:

Where an application is to be distributed, the graphical media must be
compiled into the application binary file or its associated data files,
documentation files, or components.

Anyone have any idea as to how I could basically compile all my artwork
into a data file for a python application?  Would this require compiling
them into a *.dll/*.so?  It seems like there must be any easier way--Also, I
need my application to work on windows + linux (and mac).

Any suggestions/experience would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Fred
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Re: [Tutor] compiled images

[John Fouhy]

On 18/11/05, Fred Lionetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Anyone have any idea as to how I could basically compile all my
 artwork into a data file for a python application?  Would this require
 compiling them into a *.dll/*.so?  It seems like there must be any
 easier way--Also, I need my application to work on windows + linux
 (and mac).

Maybe you could use shelve?

For instance, if you have myIcon1.gif, myIcon2.gif, myIcon3.gif:


import shelve
shelf = shelve.open('iconData')
for fn in ['myIcon1.gif', 'myIcon2.gif', 'myIcon3.gif']:
shelf[fn] = file(fn, 'rb').read()


Then, in future, you should be able to access your icons by just:

 shelf = shelve.open('iconData')
 doSomething(shelf['myIcon2.gif'])

(and if your methods require a file-like object instead of just a
binary string, you can use the StringIO module)

There may be space or time issues --- you might want to experiment :-)
--- but it will definitely be cross-platform.

--
John.
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