Hi,

I have question regarding delivering applications with LispWorks, and the keyword parameter :startup-bitmap-file allowing the programmer to incorporate a “splash screen” that is shown upon starting the delivered application. We are using LispWorks on Windows and it seems that the file always needs to be a bmp file.

What I’m asking is that does somebody now the maximum size allowed for this image? For example, it seems that if the image’s size is larger than about 700 KB then the whole image is skipped and the “splash screen” is not shown. Sometimes it would be nice to be able to incorporate larger images (especially since the image needs to a bmp) but I guess there is no way (at the moment)?

Also, I have this other question that also relates to images and LispWorks. Sometimes one would need to incorporate images directly into the GUI such as company logo or other images. Is there a way to build these images directly into the application code, so that you wouldn’t need to use e.g. pathnames pointing to separate images files somewhere on the computer which may lead to all kinds of problems? Would somebody have any comments regarding this?

With Best Regards,

Teemu Liikala