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Re: How to load control pictures on Windows?

To: "REALbasic Plugins <realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com>" <realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: How to load control pictures on Windows?
From: William Yu <william at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:46:09 -0600
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On 2/21/05 11:44 AM, "Alfred Van Hoek" <vanhoek at mac dot com> wrote:

>> Some work, but you could use GetFolderItem, and REALGetFolder (what ever it
>> is called) during loading of the plugin, use VirtualVolume dynamic access
>> and all what is needed to locate the bmp file, copy it out and load it in
>> the plugin according to Williams recommendation of a Windows api. I have
>> used this approach successfully.
> 
> I should have extended this by saying: successfully in the IDE. If RB6.0
> will not support dynamic access in the IDE (RB5-IDE does support it) then a
> feature request is in place. If you are going to submit a feature request,
> make sure to include dynamic access.
> 
> However, I believe RB6 will continue to support dynamic access, which is a
> good thing.

Correct, your approach sounds like it should work, thanks for sharing that
with us.


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