On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:33 PM, George Brink <siberianowl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like to insert some files into my binary. For example application icons, > glade definitions of primary windows etc... > In Qt such task is done by utilizing QRC: > http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/resources.html > Does GLib/GTK have something similar? If not, what external libraries/tools > do you use for such a task? For Glade files, you can load them from string constants compiled into your binary using gtk_builder_add_from_string()[0]. A project can be pretty simply setup to do this, generally you have a revisioned 'project.glade.in' and use INTLTOOL_XML_NOMERGE_RULE (not sure if that's the exact macro), but you could then add a rule to generate a '.h' file from the '.glade' or '.ui' easily enough (just need to escape the string and declare a string constant, probably doable with sed or such). For icons you can go by gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data()[1] or better yet you can use gdk_pixbuf_new_from_stream() which will detect the data format appropriately (you just need to be able to create the stream from some constant data in your program). Embedding a png into a binary can be done as easy as generating a header file with contents like: const unsigned char *image_data = "\030\004\012..."; ...and generating that is a script or tiny program that writes out the value of every byte of the input file... which might be a png file... into the 'image_data' string constant in the generated header. If you want to refer to your own icons explicitly from your glade file, then you should look into using GtkIconTheme. Just add a routine to your program to load your binary icons and use that to populate the icon theme... then you can refer to them as stock ids (widgets that can display an icon almost always export a "stock" property). GtkBuilder and Glade do allow you to define the GtkIconTheme from a glade file but it does not let you embed binary image data into the glade file... however that might very well be an interesting feature idea. I dont know if there are any external tools that exist to make this somehow easier, the approaches above I described are not much work but very hand-on. Good luck ;-) Cheers, -Tristan [0]http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.1/GtkBuilder.html#gtk-builder-add-from-string [1]http://developer.gnome.org/gdk-pixbuf/stable/gdk-pixbuf-creating.html#gdk-pixbuf-new-from-data [2]http://developer.gnome.org/gdk-pixbuf/stable/gdk-pixbuf-file-loading.html#gdk-pixbuf-new-from-stream _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
