On May 31, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Saji Viswam wrote:
I want to reduce the size without zipping. By any settings in RB IDE
itself or by changing the structure of the program.
Not really. The size of the executable includes all of the required
libraries (like DLLs) so that your program will work on any system that
meets the minimum requirements. For the most part you will be able to
just copy the built executable to a clean install of the Windows 98 or
higher operating system (some features may have a requirement of
Quicktime installed, and some features have other minimum system
requirements).
Any picture resources you include in your project are compiled as
uncompressed BMP data (Windows and Linux) even if you added them into
the project as GIF or JPG. This can represent a significant portion of
the compiled application size if you use a lot of graphics. There are
a few tricks that you can use to prevent the graphics from being
converted to BMP, but that would require more work and require that you
load the graphics from disk at the start of your program (or when
needed). In otherwords, they will not be automatically available like
internal compiled graphics currently are.
There were a few discussions recently about how to package up the
graphics so that they do not get converted to BMP. Here is the most
recent thread:
http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/realbasic-nug/2005-05/
msg03075.html
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