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Article #1515Re: Images for buttons
From: Rudy
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:06
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:06
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Cool, thanks for that, are you saying i cannot call the class but just look at it and get ideas?? Thnaks Rudy "Gillmer J. Derge (TeamB)" <spam@gillmerderge.com> wrote in message news:3fdf39ac@newsgroups.borland.com... > "Lori M Olson (TeamB)" <javadragon@techie.com> wrote in message > news:3fdf3765$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > > if I > > understand you correctly, they let you specify a GIF with multiple > > images (usually known as an animated GIF), > > I think it's more tiles than animation. Say you have a 16x32 GIF, you > can divide that up into two 16x16 tiles. > > JBuilder does this with its toolbar icons which are all tiles on a giant > image that contains dozens of icons. One of the situations where I've > seen this used is applets where it can be helpful to reduce the number > of separate files that need to be downloaded -- download one big image > instead of 20 small ones. > > > But... sorry, AFAIK the images in Java do not have this ability. It > > should not be that difficult to implement, though, if you really need > it. > > You could use the com.borland.primetime.util.Icons class and the nested > IconFactory class as a model for the API. The class is neither > documented nor redistributable, so you can't use it as is, but it looks > fairly simple and might offer some ideas. > > -- > Gillmer J. Derge (TeamB) >
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