Re: is it possible to ignore dark theme completely?

[Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 10:08, Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
>> Picture[] is really for icons, and Picture properties, because when the
>>> system icon theme changes, the internal picture is cached is used to
>>> automatically reload the icons.
>>>
>>> You should create your own cache with a collection, so that you won't be
>>> disturbed by the automatic processes behing Picture[] (dark theme
>>> adaptation, and automatic reload on system icon theme changes).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Benoît Minisini.
>>>
>>
>> Yep that's what I went with,  I made a Picture.class and added a Sub
>> LoadC() to it that uses a cache collection.
>>
>> Cheers for the advice :)
>> BruceS
>>
>
> I figured another simple workaround..
> I can use the Picture._Put method on program start to pre-load all the
> pictures i want to stay original-color.
>
> So if i do something like
>
> For Each sPic As String In Dir("./Img")
>  Picture["./Img/" & sPic] = Picture.Load("./Img/" & sPic)
> Next
>
> Then all future calls to load anything from the Img folder with Picture[]
> uses the pre-cached original color pictures.
>

Dang it, forget that last idea,, I think that it's not safe from the
auto-refreshing.
Looking at the Picture.class code it looks like "only" pictures starting
with icon:/ actually get refreshed and all other pictures in the cache are
removed so will get reloaded and inverted when referenced next.

Respects
BruceS