executable icons and then some...
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Does anyone know how to change the Icon that represents the .exe of an application? I know when you create a short cut to the executable you can change that icon by right clicking the short cut going into properties and there a place that let's you "change icon". (i'm using windows XP). Also, I'm having problems changing the icons in the top left corner of the application. I've changed the .ico files in the resource folder in VS 2005 to look like what I want it to look but it's not taking... Any suggestions? Thanks! Kitty5
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Does anyone know how to change the Icon that represents the .exe of an application? I know when you create a short cut to the executable you can change that icon by right clicking the short cut going into properties and there a place that let's you "change icon". (i'm using windows XP). Also, I'm having problems changing the icons in the top left corner of the application. I've changed the .ico files in the resource folder in VS 2005 to look like what I want it to look but it's not taking... Any suggestions? Thanks! Kitty5
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dan neely wrote:
Each form has an Icon property, under WindowStyle. You need to add the icon there.
I'm using VS2005 there's not windowstyle in the properties menu. Also, I've created an MDI MFC application. it's the parent and the child forms' icons that I want to change. Kitty5
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dan neely wrote:
Each form has an Icon property, under WindowStyle. You need to add the icon there.
I'm using VS2005 there's not windowstyle in the properties menu. Also, I've created an MDI MFC application. it's the parent and the child forms' icons that I want to change. Kitty5
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Does anyone know how to change the Icon that represents the .exe of an application? I know when you create a short cut to the executable you can change that icon by right clicking the short cut going into properties and there a place that let's you "change icon". (i'm using windows XP). Also, I'm having problems changing the icons in the top left corner of the application. I've changed the .ico files in the resource folder in VS 2005 to look like what I want it to look but it's not taking... Any suggestions? Thanks! Kitty5
Explorer uses the icon with the lowest resource ID. Make sure you change all sizes of that icon, not just the first size that the icon editor displays.
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Explorer uses the icon with the lowest resource ID. Make sure you change all sizes of that icon, not just the first size that the icon editor displays.
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
Michael Dunn wrote:
Explorer uses the icon with the lowest resource ID. Make sure you change all sizes of that icon, not just the first size that the icon editor displays.
you mean how big the icon is? this is from my test.rc:
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // Icon // // Icon with lowest ID value placed first to ensure application icon // remains consistent on all systems. IDR_MAINFRAME ICON "res\\test.ico" IDR_testTYPE ICON "res\\testDoc.ico"I don't see a size? Kitty5 -
Michael Dunn wrote:
Explorer uses the icon with the lowest resource ID. Make sure you change all sizes of that icon, not just the first size that the icon editor displays.
you mean how big the icon is? this is from my test.rc:
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // Icon // // Icon with lowest ID value placed first to ensure application icon // remains consistent on all systems. IDR_MAINFRAME ICON "res\\test.ico" IDR_testTYPE ICON "res\\testDoc.ico"I don't see a size? Kitty5Each icon resource can contain many sizes & color depths. You need to change all sizes in the
IDR_MAINFRAMEicon for the change to show up in all places. Eg if you only change the 32x32 icon, your title bar won't be affected since that uses the 16x16 icon.--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
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Each icon resource can contain many sizes & color depths. You need to change all sizes in the
IDR_MAINFRAMEicon for the change to show up in all places. Eg if you only change the 32x32 icon, your title bar won't be affected since that uses the 16x16 icon.--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
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ok... found it! Thanks. so does this mean that the .exe icon is the one that uses the 32x32? Kitty5
depending on where, it will use the 16x16, 32x32, or 48x48 icons. 16x16 in titlebar, taskbar, explorer (list, details). 32x32 explorer (Icon, tile). 48x48 explorer (thumbnail). Names in preXP may be different, and I'm not sure if earlier versions had the tile or thumbnail view at all. IF you don't have all 3 sizes, windows will scale one of the other icons (badly) to make the one it needs> -- modified at 13:08 Thursday 20th July, 2006 Also, you should provide 8, 24, and 32 bit versions of each icon. NT4 is fussy about what order they're provided in since it doesn't know how to properly display 32bit icons. I don't know if 9x has that issue as well.
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ok... found it! Thanks. so does this mean that the .exe icon is the one that uses the 32x32? Kitty5
nope, also, look into the resource.h. the icon used by the explorer is the one with the lowest ID (lowest #define)
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nope, also, look into the resource.h. the icon used by the explorer is the one with the lowest ID (lowest #define)
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