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xyplorerköln
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appicon;

Post by xyplorerköln »

Donald, thank you for the continuous improvements to XYplorer.

A quick request re: appicon; microscript:

In your release notes:
https://www.xyplorer.com/release_23.70.php
...a graphic is included which shows a snazzy all-blue version of the icon (in your Logo folder).

Would you be willing to include that blue icon as a 3rd option for App Icon via the appicon; microscript?

The user benefit: Some users run two (or more) instances of XYplorer on the same system, configured for different purposes. The appicon; functionality provides a useful, quick way to help differentiate the instances in the system taskbar, etc. Between the old icon, the new red icon, and the new all-blue icon, there would be 3 options for differentiating the instances.

Thank you for your consideration. Hopefully this would be a quick and easy inclusion.

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Cool idea. :tup:

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@Don: Just to add here a loosely relevant detail, its only a minor observation, but in the current release v22.70 the appicon dialog sizing at 125% makes it so that the inputselect has a v.scrollbar.

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Thanks!

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Not sure if you will be keen to do it, but it might be useful being able to set the choice without GUI, for example so that you could script opening a RO instance with alternate icon. eg. appicon "BBB"; or appicon 3; or similar.

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I think I did that already, acc. to the v23.60.0115 - 2022-09-25 21:53 change log. :)

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        appicon; //pop a dialog showing the choices
        appicon "AAA"; //select new red icon
        appicon "AAB"; //select new blue icon [<--- NEW LINE HERE]
        appicon "BBB"; //select old icon

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:oops:

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Post by alan65 »

I tried to use the appicon; command, but it doesn't seem to change the icon that gets pinned to either the start menu or taskbar in Windows 11.

I don't like the new icon. My main objection is that the letters XY occupy too small of a percentage of the overall icon and are harder to read than they should be.

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alan65 wrote: 28 Sep 2022 19:07 I tried to use the appicon; command, but it doesn't seem to change the icon that gets pinned to either the start menu or taskbar in Windows 11.
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Hi Donald,
would it be possible to add a green variant of the new icon as well?
Thanks.

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I've been playing with that idea just before you asked, but then decided to stick with a slightly milder version of the blue box. You'll see that in the next beta.

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Post by xyplorerköln »

Don, thank you for implementing this request!! Works fantastic.

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