This is just an opinion, i don't have the true, but hope i'm in the right way.
It's OK Eduardo, it's your opinion and we have to respect it and important to know it.
Certainly you are in the right way when all your decisions becomes a success with you and your customers.
Otherwise, we lost them...
Things can go on as they are, as it has been for many years ...
But if we want something more professional, that requires changes.
Changes in our habits mainly and then changes on
#1 (read proposed reference at end of this message) as well. That's so !!! (really not much regarding this matter)
I use the IDE a lot and would love to choose my images from it (it could open a GetFile) to choose my icons and images that I can be incorporated into the ressources of my project. As Dragan way is indicating but to do it in personal way and probably many of us wish to have our own place for that.
For those who work without IDE, It would also be the same, I repeat: the same solution as well.
#1
And for those who want to continue working as they always have, you can also use the solution will also be the same.
#1 i.e. to have in each project one resource folder. You Making copies and copies and looking out for your images where are them. In my opinion: losing time and occupying redundant space unnecessarily in an unwise way and non smart way.
But for all this to be possible, we would have to support the idea to promote this
#1. Perhaps many do not understand the importance of this but for me: this is a very relevant matter and important for our productive work.
What Dragan says is right but it's easy for a workbench as it is SQL (for example) because the buttons are known to be for data maintenance use. But for HMG to predict this, it becomes impossible as it has buttons for certain many kind of functions and still have to worry about respecting the copyright of images that are sometimes restricted. For these reasons, we should have our own icons, our own images. It's not HMG responsability (as Eduardo said in other words). What HMG could do is to make more accessible of our selected images.
I am sure that what I am proposing it maintains the backward compatibility, it would give more options when choosing the images in a concentrated way as the user wishes and we would disassociate from the prison of WINDRES in the strict folders names: for HMG path and for any user project. We would be free to use it with spaces or not in any way we want.
Windows is an operating system that allows long names, so you can create names of folders with spaces and even special characters (as we have already seen in Chinese). And if the operating system allows, Harbour I am pretty sure allows (with absolute certainty I say this) and as we use Windows, so I do not see why not to use...
What is missing here is unity to promote improvements for all. I think.
Proposed reference: In the main
Build.bat of HMG and
IDE
