Hi,
The (large) patch at
http://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/embedded_images_infra-v8.diff
replaces all the XPM images in pgAdmin with PNG ones. This offers us
two major advantages:
1) XPM images aren't supported by many graphics tools, and almost
always require manual editing to fix the internal naming anyway.
2) XPM images don't support alpha transparency.
The patch is a little complex, as it's not straightforward to embed
PNG images at build time. Here's what it does:
- Adds a new project, png2c, on which the pgAdmin project is dependent.
- Adds a new build rule for .png files, which will cause them to be
pre-processed with png2c, to create .pngc files which are C source
code, containing the PNG data and some accessor functions and macros.
- #include's the .pngc files in place of the XPMs.
- Updates the rest of the code to use the new accessor macros created
in the .pngc files:
filename_png_img - represents a wxImage*
filename_png_bmp - represents a wxBitmap*
filename_png_ico - represents a wxIcon*
Each of the accessors uses static data, so in theory, this also gives
us a performance optimisation as any given image only need be
converted to a different format (by using the appropriate accessor)
once, upon first access.
I've tested on Linux, Mac and Windows, and everything looks good.
Comments/objections before I commit?
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