diff --git a/src/dlangui/graphics/images.d b/src/dlangui/graphics/images.d
index 67fcecdd..2e3216eb 100644
--- a/src/dlangui/graphics/images.d
+++ b/src/dlangui/graphics/images.d
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ version (USE_DEIMAGE) {
 version (USE_DLIBIMAGE) {
     import dlib.image.io.io;
     import dlib.image.image;
+    import dlib.image.io.png;
+    import dlib.image.io.jpeg;
     version = ENABLE_DLIBIMAGE_JPEG;
 }
 
@@ -39,10 +41,24 @@ import dlangui.core.types;
 import dlangui.graphics.colors;
 import dlangui.graphics.drawbuf;
 import std.stream;
+import std.path;
 import std.conv : to;
 
+
 /// load and decode image from file to ColorDrawBuf, returns null if loading or decoding is failed
 ColorDrawBuf loadImage(string filename) {
+    try {
+        immutable ubyte[] data = cast(immutable ubyte[])std.file.read(filename);
+        return loadImage(data, filename);
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+        Log.e("exception while loading image from file ", filename);
+        Log.e(to!string(e));
+        return null;
+    }
+}
+
+/// load and decode image from input stream to ColorDrawBuf, returns null if loading or decoding is failed
+ColorDrawBuf loadImage(immutable ubyte[] data, string filename) {
     Log.d("Loading image from file " ~ filename);
     version (USE_DEIMAGE) {
         try {
@@ -69,6 +85,7 @@ ColorDrawBuf loadImage(string filename) {
         }
     } else version (USE_DLIBIMAGE) {
         import std.algorithm;
+        static import dlib.core.stream;
         try {
             version (ENABLE_DLIBIMAGE_JPEG) {
             } else {
@@ -76,19 +93,23 @@ ColorDrawBuf loadImage(string filename) {
                 if (filename.endsWith(".jpeg") || filename.endsWith(".jpg") || filename.endsWith(".JPG") || filename.endsWith(".JPEG"))
                     return null;
             }
-            SuperImage image = dlib.image.io.io.loadImage(filename);
+            SuperImage image = null;
+            dlib.core.stream.ArrayStream dlibstream = new dlib.core.stream.ArrayStream(cast(ubyte[])data, data.length);
+            switch(filename.extension)
+            {
+                case ".jpg", ".JPG", ".jpeg":
+                    image = dlib.image.io.jpeg.loadJPEG(dlibstream);
+                    break;
+                case ".png", ".PNG":
+                    image = dlib.image.io.png.loadPNG(dlibstream);
+                    break;
+                default:
+                    break;
+            }
+            //SuperImage image = dlib.image.io.io.loadImage(filename);
             if (!image)
                 return null;
-            int w = image.width;
-            int h = image.height;
-            ColorDrawBuf buf = new ColorDrawBuf(w, h);
-            for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
-                uint * dstLine = buf.scanLine(y);
-                for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
-                    auto pixel = image[x, h - 1 - y].convert(8);
-                    dstLine[x] = makeRGBA(pixel.r, pixel.g, pixel.b, 255 - pixel.a);
-                }
-            }
+            ColorDrawBuf buf = importImage(image);
             destroy(image);
             return buf;
         } catch (Exception e) {
@@ -110,6 +131,22 @@ ColorDrawBuf loadImage(string filename) {
 
 }
 
+version (USE_DLIBIMAGE) {
+    ColorDrawBuf importImage(SuperImage image) {
+        int w = image.width;
+        int h = image.height;
+        ColorDrawBuf buf = new ColorDrawBuf(w, h);
+        for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
+            uint * dstLine = buf.scanLine(y);
+            for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
+                auto pixel = image[x, h - 1 - y].convert(8);
+                dstLine[x] = makeRGBA(pixel.r, pixel.g, pixel.b, 255 - pixel.a);
+            }
+        }
+        return buf;
+    }
+}
+
 class ImageDecodingException : Exception {
     this(string msg) {
         super(msg);
diff --git a/src/dlangui/graphics/resources.d b/src/dlangui/graphics/resources.d
index 31d10083..311f8657 100644
--- a/src/dlangui/graphics/resources.d
+++ b/src/dlangui/graphics/resources.d
@@ -37,9 +37,16 @@ import std.conv;
 import std.string;
 import std.path;
 
+/// filename prefix for embedded resources
+immutable string EMBEDDED_RESOURCE_PREFIX = "@embedded@/";
+
 struct EmbeddedResource {
-    string name;
-    ubyte[] data;
+    immutable string name;
+    immutable ubyte[] data;
+    this(immutable string name, immutable ubyte[] data) {
+        this.name = name;
+        this.data = data;
+    }
 }
 
 struct EmbeddedResourceList {
@@ -47,14 +54,41 @@ struct EmbeddedResourceList {
     void addResources(EmbeddedResource[] resources) {
         list ~= resources;
     }
+    /// find by exact file name
+    EmbeddedResource * find(string name) {
+        for(int i = 0; i < list.length; i++)
+            if (name.equal(list[i].name))
+                return &list[i];
+        return null;
+    }
+    /// find by name w/o extension
+    EmbeddedResource * findAutoExtension(string name) {
+        string xmlname = name ~ ".xml";
+        string pngname = name ~ ".png";
+        string png9name = name ~ ".9.png";
+        string jpgname = name ~ ".jpg";
+        string jpegname = name ~ ".jpeg";
+        for(int i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
+            string s = list[i].name;
+            if (s.equal(xmlname) || s.equal(pngname) || s.equal(png9name) 
+                    || s.equal(jpgname) || s.equal(jpegname))
+                return &list[i];
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
 }
 
 __gshared EmbeddedResourceList embeddedResourceList;
 
 EmbeddedResource[] embedResource(string resourceName)() {
-    static if ((baseName(resourceName)).length > 0)
-        return [EmbeddedResource(resourceName, cast(ubyte[])import(baseName(resourceName)))];
-    else
+    immutable string name = baseName(resourceName);
+    static if (name.length > 0) {
+        immutable ubyte[] data = cast(immutable ubyte[])import(name);
+        static if (data.length > 0)
+            return [EmbeddedResource(name, data)];
+        else
+            return [];
+    } else
         return [];
 }
 
@@ -62,8 +96,10 @@ EmbeddedResource[] embedResource(string resourceName)() {
 EmbeddedResource[] embedResources(string[] resourceNames)() {
     static if (resourceNames.length == 0)
         return [];
+    static if (resourceNames.length == 1)
+        return embedResource!(resourceNames[0])();
     else
-        return embedResource!(resourceNames[0])() ~ embedResources!(resourceNames[1..$])();
+        return embedResources!(resourceNames[0 .. $/2])() ~ embedResources!(resourceNames[$/2 .. $])();
 }
 
 /// embed all resources from list
@@ -78,6 +114,24 @@ __gshared static this() {
     }
 }
 
+/// load resource bytes from embedded resource or file
+immutable(ubyte[]) loadResourceBytes(string filename) {
+    if (filename.startsWith(EMBEDDED_RESOURCE_PREFIX)) {
+        EmbeddedResource * embedded = embeddedResourceList.find(filename[EMBEDDED_RESOURCE_PREFIX.length .. $]);
+        if (embedded)
+            return embedded.data;
+        return null;
+    } else {
+        try {
+            immutable ubyte[] data = cast(immutable ubyte[])std.file.read(filename);
+            return data;
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            Log.e("exception while loading file ", filename);
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 class Drawable : RefCountedObject {
 	//private static int _instanceCount;
 	this() {
@@ -538,7 +592,11 @@ class StateDrawable : Drawable {
         import std.string;
 
         try {
-            string s = cast(string)std.file.read(filename);
+            string s = cast(string)loadResourceBytes(filename);
+            if (!s) {
+                Log.e("Cannot read drawable resource from file ", filename);
+                return false;
+            }
 
             // Check for well-formedness
             //check(s);
@@ -550,9 +608,6 @@ class StateDrawable : Drawable {
         } catch (CheckException e) {
             Log.e("Invalid XML file ", filename);
             return false;
-        } catch (Throwable e) {
-            Log.e("Cannot read drawable resource from file ", filename);
-            return false;
         }
     }
 
@@ -602,10 +657,13 @@ class ImageCache {
                 _used = true;
                 return _drawbuf;
             }
-            _drawbuf = loadImage(_filename);
-            if (_filename.endsWith(".9.png"))
-                _drawbuf.detectNinePatch();
-            _used = true;
+            immutable ubyte[] data = loadResourceBytes(_filename);
+            if (data) {
+                _drawbuf = loadImage(data, _filename);
+                if (_filename.endsWith(".9.png"))
+                    _drawbuf.detectNinePatch();
+                _used = true;
+            }
             if (_drawbuf.isNull)
                 _error = true;
             return _drawbuf;
@@ -917,6 +975,12 @@ class DrawableCache {
             return id; // it's not a file name, just a color #AARRGGBB
         if (id in _idToFileMap)
             return _idToFileMap[id];
+        EmbeddedResource * embedded = embeddedResourceList.findAutoExtension(id);
+        if (embedded) {
+            string fn = EMBEDDED_RESOURCE_PREFIX ~ embedded.name;
+            _idToFileMap[id] = fn;
+            return fn;
+        }
         foreach(string path; _resourcePaths) {
             string fn;
             fn = checkFileName(path, id, ".xml");
diff --git a/src/dlangui/widgets/styles.d b/src/dlangui/widgets/styles.d
index 6c82662b..07395aa5 100644
--- a/src/dlangui/widgets/styles.d
+++ b/src/dlangui/widgets/styles.d
@@ -1278,11 +1278,15 @@ bool loadTheme(Theme theme, string resourceId, int level = 0) {
 		filename = drawableCache.findResource(resourceId);
 		if (!filename || !filename.endsWith(".xml"))
 			return false;
-		string s = cast(string)std.file.read(filename);
+		string s = cast(string)loadResourceBytes(filename);
+        if (!s) {
+            Log.e("Cannot read XML resource ", resourceId, " from file ", filename);
+            return false;
+        }
 		
 		// Check for well-formedness
 		//check(s);
-		
+	
 		// Make a DOM tree
 		auto doc = new Document(s);
 		
@@ -1290,9 +1294,6 @@ bool loadTheme(Theme theme, string resourceId, int level = 0) {
 	} catch (CheckException e) {
 		Log.e("Invalid XML resource ", resourceId);
 		return false;
-	} catch (Throwable e) {
-		Log.e("Cannot read XML resource ", resourceId, " from file ", filename, " exception: ", e);
-		return false;
 	}
 }