NAME

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

DESCRIPTION

       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".

SYNOPSIS

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

API

   Methods
       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.

   Constants
       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

   Scalars
       $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.

AUTHOR

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

SEE ALSO

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