Re: Embedded xrc dialogs

Andreas Pflug wrote:

> I just committed a change to cvs, enabling to load the xrc resources
> from binary instead of file. When defining EMBED_XRC, the dialogs
> generated in ui/common/xrcDialogs.cpp are used, and the ui/common
> directory isn't needed for execution any more. Currently, the macro is
> defined for Release versions in win32, and undefined in Debug
> versions. We could do the same for Linux.
>
> To compile the xrc sources into the xrcDialogs.cpp, the script
> ui/common/embed-xrc is used.
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't succeed in making the xrcDialogs.cpp under
> msdev automatically, dependent on ui/common/*.xrc; should be no
> problem in Makefile though (if wxrc is present, this should be checked
> in configure).
>
> Under Win32, I used an enhanced version of wxrc which is able to
> evaluate wildcard filenames. The current version will not do this, but
> a patch is already posted to wxWindows.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
I can't tell you how glad I am to hear this. :-) I like the simplicity
of XRC resources for designing a UI, but when it comes to distributing
one, they're a pain. This is good!!

ahp