I was thinking about the same for my application but I want to do it with folders instead of a dbf file. For example I'd have a folder named themes within my application home folder and inside that folder one for each icon set.

Not exactly an answer for your question, just an opinion.

Enmanuel

>Hi All.
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>I have in the past always included icons and bitmaps required by my app in the project and hence in the exe file itself. Now I am thinking of putting all required icons and bitmaps into a standalone dbf file. The purpose would be that each record in this file could contain a different set of icons and I could then change the appearance of the app depending on which record I choose to get the icons and bitmaps from.
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>Is there any downside to this? Would there be a performance hit for getting the icons from this file rather than having them in the exe file? Would this be worse when running over a network?
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>Thanks