Better icon for Vista

[peterbonge]

The program icon of XYplorer doesn't look very good on the desktop of Vista. Just compare it with the icon of foobar2000 and you'll see what I mean. It would be nice if you could change this.

[Laughing Man]

Haha..especially on an objectdock. It looks kinda funny compared to all the other icons. But I've learned to live with it (though on my RocketDock I have it changed into a hammer )

[admin]

The program icon of XYplorer doesn't look very good on the desktop of Vista. Just compare it with the icon of foobar2000 and you'll see what I mean. It would be nice if you could change this.

Vista? foobar2000? What's that?

[admin]

Okay, I found a nice way to add a Vista-friendly icon. You like?

[peterbonge]

Okay, I found a nice way to add a Vista-friendly icon. You like?

Looks much better! I'm also sure that the 32x32 32bit one will also look better under XP. I also like the gears itself, but it seems that they are just for testing. Or not?

[admin]

Okay, I found a nice way to add a Vista-friendly icon. You like?

Looks much better! I'm also sure that the 32x32 32bit one will also look better under XP. I also like the gears itself, but it seems that they are just for testing. Or not?

Yes, just for testing.

Why do you think 32x32 32bit will better under XP also? The old icon (which IS 32x32 32bit) looks totally alright under my XP.

[peterbonge]

Why do you think 32x32 32bit will better under XP also? The old icon (which IS 32x32 32bit) looks totally alright under my XP.

No, the old icon was just 8bit! -> no antialiasing/alpha-transparency -> rounded corners doesn't look so good.

With this thread I don't want to say that the original icon is bad. I like the icon. But since the XYplorer shortcut is one of the most important shortcut on the desktop I think it should look as good as the other icons. Even on Vista

[admin]

Why do you think 32x32 32bit will better under XP also? The old icon (which IS 32x32 32bit) looks totally alright under my XP.

No, the old icon was just 8bit! -> no antialiasing/alpha-transparency -> rounded corners doesn't look so good.

With this thread I don't want to say that the original icon is bad. I like the icon. But since the XYplorer shortcut is one of the most important shortcut on the desktop I think it should look as good as the other icons. Even on Vista

Oh, absolutely! I'm greatful that you mentioned it.

And you're right, the old icon was just 8-bit -- I was mistaken.

Now I'm looking for a free or cheap icon editor that supports all XP and Vista formats. Because I need it just for 1 single icon I don't want to pay many euros for it... Actually a converter (PNG to ICO) alone would do.

[peterbonge]

Now I'm looking for a free or cheap icon editor that supports all XP and Vista formats. Because I need it just for 1 single icon I don't want to pay many euros for it... Actually a converter (PNG to ICO) alone would do.

IconDeveloper v1.3.0 (Shareware without time limit):
http://www.stardock.com/products/iconde ... nloads.asp

IconLab v1.0 (Freeware):
http://www.wildfiredesign.net/software/iconlab/

@icon sushi (Freeware):
http://www.towofu.net/soft/e-aicon.php

[jacky]

My Pick: IcoFX

[Laughing Man]

Nice icon! The gears look pretty cool.

[jacky]

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      I have to manually inject these icon resources after each build -- 
      a PITA, and something I might not do for each BETA version... 

Just a quick question: why? can't you compile them into a ressource file (*.res) and simply add it to your VB project?

[admin]

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      I have to manually inject these icon resources after each build -- 
      a PITA, and something I might not do for each BETA version... 

Just a quick question: why? can't you compile them into a ressource file (*.res) and simply add it to your VB project?

Well, I think that should work if you know how to do it. Actually I tried it a bit yesterday and gave up! I never got warm with the resource compiler...

[jacky]

Well, I think that should work if you know how to do it. Actually I tried it a bit yesterday and gave up! I never got warm with the resource compiler...

hmm well, I'm not a specialist but here's how I do it. I have a file called MyProject.rc, textfile with this:

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1	24	"MyProject.manifest"
AAA	ICON	MOVEABLE	PRELOAD	"MyProject.exe.ico"

And I have a little CompilRES.bat for when I make changes:

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@echo off
d:\micros~1.0\Wizards\rc MyProject.rc
ren MyProject.res MyProject.res
pause

And I just add MyProject.res on the VB project. Works fine here, so if it can be any help...

[admin]

YEAH!

And more: Finally alpha-transparency all over, even in the titlebar and taskbar!