Images in C#

[Raj Chudasama]

I have an app in which i use a lot of images ( Bitmaps and Pngs).
Most of the time i make a good use out of imagelist control sometimes i
just drop images in the project rather than in image list (use Bitmap m =
new Bitmap(GetType(), "image.bmp"); syntax). (I will be cleaning it all up
when i find a way to skin the app).

Now the problem is that i would like to make it so the bitmaps are loaded
during runtime so i can change any image any time (sort of skinning but don
t want to go to far yet).

With image lists i cannot do that currently. i have to readd each image and
recompile the program same with dropping images in the project (using
"Embedded Resource").
Anyone have any ideas how i can do this?

[Mythran]

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I have an app in which i use a lot of images ( Bitmaps and Pngs).
Most of the time i make a good use out of imagelist control sometimes i
just drop images in the project rather than in image list (use Bitmap m =
new Bitmap(GetType(), "image.bmp"); syntax). (I will be cleaning it all
up when i find a way to skin the app).

Now the problem is that i would like to make it so the bitmaps are loaded
during runtime so i can change any image any time (sort of skinning but
don t want to go to far yet).

With image lists i cannot do that currently. i have to readd each image
and recompile the program same with dropping images in the project (using
"Embedded Resource").
Anyone have any ideas how i can do this?

Hrm, how about having an "images" folder in the project. Then just reading
the images in from there? Maybe have an ini file that contains the list of
file names to load or something? Then you can just pass the path to the
image to Bitmap's constructor.

HTH,
Mythran

[Raj Chudasama]

Thanks Mythran

i will try that route out :)
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"Raj Chudasama" <ra*@asteriasgi.com> wrote in message
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I have an app in which i use a lot of images ( Bitmaps and Pngs).
Most of the time i make a good use out of imagelist control sometimes i
just drop images in the project rather than in image list (use Bitmap m =
new Bitmap(GetType(), "image.bmp"); syntax). (I will be cleaning it all
up when i find a way to skin the app).

Now the problem is that i would like to make it so the bitmaps are loaded
during runtime so i can change any image any time (sort of skinning but
don t want to go to far yet).

With image lists i cannot do that currently. i have to readd each image
and recompile the program same with dropping images in the project (using
"Embedded Resource").
Anyone have any ideas how i can do this?

Hrm, how about having an "images" folder in the project. Then just
reading the images in from there? Maybe have an ini file that contains
the list of file names to load or something? Then you can just pass the
path to the image to Bitmap's constructor.

HTH,
Mythran