Prima::StdBitmap - shared access to the standard toolkit bitmaps

The toolkit contains sysimage.gif image library, which consists of a predefined set of images, used in several toolkit modules. To provide a unified access to the images this module can be used. The images are assigned a sbmp:: constant, which is used as an index on a load request. If loaded successfully, images are cached and the successive requests return the cached values.

The images can be loaded as Prima::Image and Prima::Icon instances. To discriminate, two methods are used, correspondingly image and icon.

	use Prima::StdBitmap;
	my $logo = Prima::StdBitmap::icon( sbmp::Logo );

icon INDEX

Loads INDEXth image frame and returns Prima::Icon instance.

image INDEX

Loads INDEXth image frame and returns Prima::Image instance.

load_std_bmp INDEX, AS_ICON, USE_CACHED_VALUE, IMAGE_FILE

Loads INDEXth image frame from IMAGE_FILE and returns it as either a Prima::Image or as a Prima::Icon instance, depending on value of boolean AS_ICON flag. If USE_CACHED_VALUE boolean flag is set, the cached images loaded previously can be used. If this flag is unset, the cached value is never used, and the created image is not stored in the cache. Since the module's intended use is to provide shared and read-only access to the image library, USE_CACHED_VALUE set to 0 can be used to return non-shared images.

An index value passed to the methods must be one of sbmp:: constants:

	sbmp::Logo
	sbmp::CheckBoxChecked
	sbmp::CheckBoxCheckedPressed
	sbmp::CheckBoxUnchecked
	sbmp::CheckBoxUncheckedPressed
	sbmp::RadioChecked
	sbmp::RadioCheckedPressed
	sbmp::RadioUnchecked
	sbmp::RadioUncheckedPressed
	sbmp::Warning
	sbmp::Information
	sbmp::Question
	sbmp::OutlineCollaps
	sbmp::OutlineExpand
	sbmp::Error
	sbmp::SysMenu
	sbmp::SysMenuPressed
	sbmp::Max
	sbmp::MaxPressed
	sbmp::Min
	sbmp::MinPressed
	sbmp::Restore
	sbmp::RestorePressed
	sbmp::Close
	sbmp::ClosePressed
	sbmp::Hide
	sbmp::HidePressed
	sbmp::DriveUnknown
	sbmp::DriveFloppy
	sbmp::DriveHDD
	sbmp::DriveNetwork
	sbmp::DriveCDROM
	sbmp::DriveMemory
	sbmp::GlyphOK
	sbmp::GlyphCancel
	sbmp::SFolderOpened
	sbmp::SFolderClosed
	sbmp::Last

$sysimage scalar is initialized to the file name to be used as a source of standard image frames by default. It is possible to alter this scalar at run-time, which causes all subsequent image frame request to be redirected to the new file.

Dmitry Karasik, <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>.

Prima, Prima::Image, Prima::Const.