Organizing Bitmaps

[Fromethius]

If I have 3 bitmaps that I am going to use in a program, naturally, I'd put them in a resource file.

However, I have around 800. How should I go about doing this? How should I go about managing and manipulating all these bitmap files?

I need to be able to constanly display a certain bitmap out of the 800 on a location on the windowed application.

Thanks for any help given whatsoever. By the way, I'm using Dev-C++.

[weaknessforcats]

Most likely you would have the ID for the bitmap paired with the path to the file and this pair inserted in a map<> container. That way your could easily retreive the path from the ID.

[Fromethius]

Would this allow me to include the images into the executable? Because I don't want 800 images just lying around in the same folder. Also, how do you use Map<>?

Thanks!

[Fromethius]

Well I now know that it includes them in the exe. But still, how do you use Map<>?

[weaknessforcats]

But still, how do you use Map<>?

You need a C++ textbook or online research to learn how to use the C++ Standard Library. This will spare you writing thousands of lines of code that just duplicates the STL.

Start with "C++ Primer Plus" 5 th Ed. by Stephen Prata then go to "Effective STL" by Scott Meyers.