>>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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>Jos,
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>Yes, there is a performance hit. Does it matter? It's impossible to tell.
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>The question is, "Why do you want to do this?"

Hi George. The reason is that it's an easy way to allow a user to choose a theme of icons and bitmaps to use. :)