Can resources (pictures) be compiled into an executable?

ROOT
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I have a ROOT Gui app, that uses TGToolBar.

Is it possible to compile pictures that I use in TGToolBar into the executable? It’s not a nice solution to always copy new icons into ROOT’s icon dir, especially when I copy the app to different computer.

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Yes, please take a look at $ROOTSYS/tutorials/gui/iconAsXPMData.C

Cheers, Bertrand.

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P.S. see also this thread: http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5390

Bertrand.

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I guess the trick is possible only with xpm files, no other graphics formats like png for example?