[OPTIMALIZATIONS] Glow.exe size reducing

[lunter2]

You can save 400 097 bytes by lossless recompress *.png and *.ico files.

I've attached a package of optimized files.
They are the same pixel to pixel.
The output Glow.exe file should be about 400kb smaller.

glow_images.zip

[turkaysoftware]

All icons used within Glow total 380 KB in size. The main factor increasing the size is Tools. Without Tools, Glow's size is 1.8 MB. This is not directly related to images.

[lunter2]

See what I managed to accomplish just by optimizing the graphics.
It only takes up 1.8 MB :)
Practically half the size of your version.

Glow 25.14.2.zip

[lunter2]

further optimizations related to graphics
and now we have 1.1 MB
Glow 25.14.2.zip

...so think about it because you can optimize your app to 1/4 size

[turkaysoftware]

I'm curious how you did it. Could you tell me?

[lunter2]

Steps:

1. Update all graphics files (size optimalization) from

glow-25.14.1_update.zip

here we save about 1 MB

2. Remove all *.resx files
   without Properties\Resources.resx

3. Edit Properties\Resources.resx file, add at the end:

  <data name="GlowLogo" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms">
    <value>..\GlowLogo.ico;System.Drawing.Icon, System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</value>
  </data>

4. Edit Properties\Resources.Designer.cs file, add

        /// <summary>
        ///   System.Drawing.Icon türünde yerelleştirilmiş bir kaynak arar.
        /// </summary>
        internal static System.Drawing.Icon GlowLogo {
            get {
                object obj = ResourceManager.GetObject("GlowLogo", resourceCulture);
                return ((System.Drawing.Icon)(obj));
            }
        }

5. Edit Glow.csproj file, remove all <EmbeddedResource> ... </EmbeddedResource>
   without <EmbeddedResource Include="Properties\Resources.resx"> ... </EmbeddedResource>

6. Edit all *.Designer.cs files

this.Icon = ((System.Drawing.Icon)(resources.GetObject("$this.Icon")));
=>
this.Icon = Properties.Resources.GlowLogo;

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this is the result:
glow-25.14.1_new.zip

[turkaysoftware]

The results are truly incredible, the exe file size is reduced to 1.2 MB. Well done and thank you for your hard work. We need to continue building Glow based on this development.

[turkaysoftware]

Importing the icon from the Properties panel creates a new resx file, which increases the size of the exe during compilation. Additionally, even if they are all the same icon, they are loaded into memory as different icons, which also increases RAM usage. Now, however, GC is working properly and memory usage has dropped by 45%. Compilation speed has also increased by 80%. That's amazing.

[turkaysoftware]

The suggestion has been implemented.