[QUESTION] Imagemanager icons

Hi Aaron,

Personally I find that it depends on the project I am working on, but in most cases when I know the project will involve many forms I tend to use just one ImageManager control and place this on the main form.

Within a module I create a list of images that start:

Public Const ID_IMAGE_<IMAGENAME> = 1000

That way I can build up a list of reusable images, albeit in most cases images are not used again and again but as you suggested this means you only have one ImageManager control in your project thus keeping the compiled file size down. It does mean that finding an image is easy as they are all referenced in the same module. The range I use for the ID No. I always make sure that I start at lets say 1000 so I can grow this up to 1999. So I start my next ranges for lets say Menu's at 2000 that way I should never have any conflict.

Also in v15.1.1 CJ have implemented the use of .png alpha icons within the ImageManager. Not that the .bmp files were that big but changing to the .png file helps decrease the size (just a little!)

But again it's all down to personal choice, each to their own.

Hi Aaron,

Yeah I can see what you mean about having one ImageManager but then loading that into each CommandBar, ReportControl or what not. I suppose this would as you say mean having allocated memory for images you don't need.

Another method could be to have a few ImageManagers on your Main Form, group the icons that you use mostly in CommandBars into one, the others for ReportControls into another. Again it's not the perfect solution, but it would help reduce the need for placing individual ImageManagers on every form.

As for "Also in v15.1.1 CJ have implemented the use of .png alpha icons within the ImageManager", it was something I noticed in their Release Notes, I didn't realise it was already available or I would have been using it too.