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[X-Tools]

Hi,

is there a way to get the bitmap name from a bitlist or table like in tommy's vdslists ?

Bye, Fabian

[FreezingFire]

I think I posted a wish in the wish list about this exact thing. It
bugs me I can't do that.

[jules]

There is no way to do that. The name of the bitmap isn't stored anywhere in the table element or the image list that contains the images it displays. Once the name is used to load the image into the image list, all that's stored is a hash value to ensure only one copy of the image is loaded.

It would be a considerable memory and performance overhead for large tables using many different images to keep the filename of every image. You set the image in your program, presumably using some formula based on the data on that line, so if you need the image name you should be able to work it out by repeating the formula. It doesn't make sense to burden all VDS programs that use tables with that overhead. That was the design philosophy, anyway.

[FreezingFire]

Well couldn't you just let it return them if you specify a style, such
as "SAVEBITMAPNAMES" or something? Then it wouldn't have to
store them unless you told the interpreter to do that.

[X-Tools]

I have another idea. I use one cool trick in my apps for saving database ids for each line. create a column with 0 pixel width - it will be invisible. i will use this too for saving the image name.
one small problem - if the user drags the mouse directly on the posistion of the 0 pixel column, he can change the size of it and so it becomes
visible, but i think this is not a big problem

bye, fabian

[FreezingFire]

But still I think that the STYLE idea would work fine too... And then
we wouldn't have the small problem with the user being able to
drag the left column.