>>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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>Not really. If you use BLOB fields to keep the binaries, and icons (ico, gif, etc) tend to be small and light anyway, would work very nicely and would allow you easy packaging of all your icon files, and even some security if you wanted to avoid a bunch of icon files in a Windows folder where anybody can get to them.

Hi Alex. Thanks for the feedback. Just to confirm - you recommend blob fields as the preferred field type for this?