Is this possible?

[SwaggerDownPatricia]

I have about 50 pictures that I want to "inject" into my program. What I mean by this is: I don't want the program to load images locally with a file path.

I want a picture of a cat to be displayed whenever the person clicks on button1. I want it all to be in 1 program though. I don't want to give someone a folder which contains the program and another folder which contains the picture of a cat.

So basically, I want to have a bunch of pictures in my program which are hidden away inside of it. Is this possible? And if so, how would I do it?

[techgnome]

You embed them as a resource.

-tg

[Toph]

Depending on the need of this and how you want the users to use this system. Embedding tons of large file size images is not good as it bloats your software. An alternative is to download those images from your website to the screen. And you can even take it further by downloading the image and storing it on %AppData% folder, and use that. So check if the specific image exists, if it doesn't, download a fresh pair and show it on the screen. It's real simple.

But it's all up to you.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Here is a Link on how

One thing i always do is Create a folder in my project called Resources, and then i add any images into that folder.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Embedding tons of large file size images is not good as it bloats your software.

Hmm, Your going to have to have a lot of big images for this to be an issue. If your Images are large, High resolution images then maybe don't embed them otherwise you are unlikely to have any problems.

An alternative is to download those images from your website to the screen.

If the images are big enough for you NOT to want to embed them, then doing it this way is going to slow down your app !

[Toph]

Hmm, Your going to have to have a lot of big images for this to be an issue. If your Images are large, High resolution images then maybe don't embed them otherwise you are unlikely to have any problems.



If the images are big enough for you NOT to want to embed them, then doing it this way is going to slow down your app !

Download it async? Then store it on your %AppData% so it can reference it another time instead of re-downloading. But yeah, only download from a website if the file size is large like I said. If it's small then just embed to the resources.

[JuggaloBrotha]

Another thought, embed the images in the program and on startup have the program check for a folder inside the user's AppData folder: %appadata%\YourAppName
If that folder does not exist, then create it and extract all the images from inside the program to it. Then the program itself can just reference the images from the hard drive and the user is none the wiser.

[SwaggerDownPatricia]

I've figured out what I want to do, thanks for the help everyone!