The tclutil/bitmaps directory contains the bitmaps used by the widgets in this package. In order to make it easier to use the bitmaps and to release a single binary of applications, using packages such as ET (Embedded Tk), the bitmaps are compiled in as static bitmaps. They are available to all Tcl scripts by name (the base name of the bitmap file). Other packages can add their own bitmaps in the same way by compiling them as static bitmaps. This adds very little overhead and saves a lot of trouble locating the bitmaps at runtime. It may also increase Tk performance somewhat.
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