On Sunday, 2012-12-16, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > It doesn't bother me to put icon names in the C++ code, either. The > widget way of using resources works great, because you don't have to > think about the path to the image on disk. If you don't want to use > resources then some kind of image provider should be another way to > abstract away the details of loading, so that when creating an action > in C++ you only need to give the name of the icon. If you have a > naming convention, maybe even that can have an automatic default: you > just name the action itself, and the matching icon will be found by > that name without having to set up the mapping anywhere.
While it is theoretically possible to create icons during runtime e.g. using QPainter, I think that icon-by-name is by far the more often used approach. When was the last time anyone so icons not being loaded by name (from theme, resource or file)? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer | [email protected] | Software Engineer Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company Tel. Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322) KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions
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