>>>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?"
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>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. :)

I've never thought of doing that. Cool! In my situation, however, it might create an inconsistency that might may support more difficult.