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icons in code/context

Adrian Nistor

Hi all,

I was thinking about adding some icons to a form. Everything it's ok, except that when I will "release" the final version of my tool, I will have to provide also the icon files, and this I want to avoid. Is there any method to include an icon in a context file or to "compile" it as skill code? Or is there other method to resume the tool at only one file and also to mantain the possibility to load the file in icfb (this way the both the script and the icons shoul be loaded) ?

 

Thank you,

Adrian

  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Adrian,

    You can create icons the old fashioned way - for example:

    (defun abSomeExampleToCreateIconButtons ()
      (let (colourArray downString upString downIcon upIcon downButton upButton outputs)
        ;-----------------------------------------------------------------
        ; Create the icons for the up/down buttons
        ;-----------------------------------------------------------------
        (setq colourArray (hiCreateColorArray))
        (setarray colourArray 0 (hiMatchColorByName "thistle"))
        (setarray colourArray 1 (hiMatchColorByName "red"))
        (setq downString
    	 "aaaaaaaaaaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  a111111111111a\
    	  aa1111111111aa\
    	  aaa11111111aaa\
    	  aaaa111111aaaa\
    	  aaaaa1111aaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaaaaaaaaaa"    )
        (setq upString
    	 "aaaaaaaaaaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaa1111aaaaa\
    	  aaaa111111aaaa\
    	  aaa11111111aaa\
    	  aa1111111111aa\
    	  a111111111111a\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaa11aaaaaa\
    	  aaaaaaaaaaaaaa"    )
        (setq downIcon (hiStringToIcon colourArray downString 14 13))
        (setq upIcon (hiStringToIcon colourArray upString 14 13))
        ;--------------------------------------------------------------------
        ; Now create the fields on the form
        ;--------------------------------------------------------------------
        (setq upButton
    	  (hiCreateButton
    	    ?name 'upButton
    	    ?buttonText "Up"
    	    ?buttonIcon upIcon
    	    ?callback "(abMyFormCB (hiGetCurrentForm) t)"
    	    ))
        (setq downButton
    	  (hiCreateButton
    	    ?name 'downButton
    	    ?buttonText "Down"
    	    ?buttonIcon downIcon
    	    ?callback "(abMyFormCB (hiGetCurrentForm) nil)"
    	    ))
        ; code modified to remove irrelevant stuff below 
    ))

    But apart from that, you can't embed (say) png or similar bitmap files within the context. You should be able to devise a way to locate them though - normally they'd go in the .cadence dir somewhere and be found that way (I think) - sorry, don't have time to try it out and experiment, so giving a very quick cut-and-paste answer.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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