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I am uncertain as to how to be able to tell that. The ICO file definitely has the alpha channel though.admin wrote:When you look at the default icon in your top-left window corner (or in the taskbar), does it have alpha transparency? (Just checking whether certain icon-defining functions work at all under W7...)
I can tell from a screen shot. The pixels at the borders should slightly adjust to the background color. You need a screen loupe software to check that.zer0 wrote:I am uncertain as to how to be able to tell that. The ICO file definitely has the alpha channel though.admin wrote:When you look at the default icon in your top-left window corner (or in the taskbar), does it have alpha transparency? (Just checking whether certain icon-defining functions work at all under W7...)
Indeed they do adjust to background colour. ICO file is fine and tweak is used correctly. So what can be causing this problem? Has anyone else on Win 7 x64 tried to substitute XYplorer's new icon for a custom one?admin wrote:I can tell from a screen shot. The pixels at the borders should slightly adjust to the background color. You need a screen loupe software to check that.
Yup, its been working always for me on Win7 x64.zer0 wrote:Indeed they do adjust to background colour. ICO file is fine and tweak is used correctly. So what can be causing this problem? Has anyone else on Win 7 x64 tried to substitute XYplorer's new icon for a custom one?admin wrote:I can tell from a screen shot. The pixels at the borders should slightly adjust to the background color. You need a screen loupe software to check that.
The icon you posted works fine on my Windows 7 PC. Only the taskbar icon remains the original one until I reboot, so that's a Windows thing.zer0 wrote:On XP that is, right? Works on XP here also. No go on Win 7 though. Clutching at the straws: could brackets in ICO file's path be screwing things up?admin wrote:The icon works fine here.
I was playing with my startup apps (start>All programs>startup) and by chance set the XY's shortcut icon to 1 and my shortcut and taskbar icon was blank. When i changed to icon #2 and OKed i got my icon back.zer0 wrote:Indeed they do adjust to background colour. ICO file is fine and tweak is used correctly. So what can be causing this problem? Has anyone else on Win 7 x64 tried to substitute XYplorer's new icon for a custom one?admin wrote:I can tell from a screen shot. The pixels at the borders should slightly adjust to the background color. You need a screen loupe software to check that.
Now every time I update XYplorer I need to manually go through that icon-changing process. Grrr... 
I've slightly lost the plot: your original report said that of the three places the custom icon is displayed, *none* displayed the custom icon. I get the impression that the problem is now confined to the taskbar icon?zer0 wrote:Wahey! I managed to work around it. Went to Start -> All Programs -> XYplorer and changed the icon of the shortcut to XYplorer.exe. Still, the question of why that tweak didn't work remains
Pardon if I confused you. Curently, I can only get the taskbar icon to display the desired icon -- and that is temporary and lasts until I update XYplorer. The Aero Sneak Peek and XY's title bar icons do not appear to change at all (see below)nas8e9 wrote:I've slightly lost the plot: your original report said that of the three places the custom icon is displayed, *none* displayed the custom icon. I get the impression that the problem is now confined to the taskbar icon?zer0 wrote:Wahey! I managed to work around it. Went to Start -> All Programs -> XYplorer and changed the icon of the shortcut to XYplorer.exe. Still, the question of why that tweak didn't work remains
Thank you for getting me up to speed again. It seems that XYplorer itself does nothing with the custom icon file since the taskbar icon is an Explorer thing. I wonder whether XYplorer (whether because of file permissions or something else) can't access the icon file?zer0 wrote:Pardon if I confused you. Curently, I can only get the taskbar icon to display the desired icon -- and that is temporary and lasts until I update XYplorer. The Aero Sneak Peek and XY's title bar icons do not appear to change at all (see below)
XYplorer can definitely access that icon file, because I have just asked for a CTB to use that ICO file and its icon did change.nas8e9 wrote:I wonder whether XYplorer (whether because of file permissions or something else) can't access the icon file?
Given that two Windows 7 x64-users (serendipity and myself) don't have this problem, incredibly weird. To eliminate another obvious possibility, I saw in an earlier post that you use the full path for IconFile in xyplorer.ini. Does it make any difference if you put that file in the main directory (with XYplorer.exe) and only provide the file name for the IconFile value?zer0 wrote:XYplorer can definitely access that icon file, because I have just asked for a CTB to use that ICO file and its icon did change.nas8e9 wrote:I wonder whether XYplorer (whether because of file permissions or something else) can't access the icon file?
Ehhh, I screwed upnas8e9 wrote:Given that two Windows 7 x64-users (serendipity and myself) don't have this problem, incredibly weird. To eliminate another obvious possibility, I saw in an earlier post that you use the full path for IconFile in xyplorer.ini. Does it make any difference if you put that file in the main directory (with XYplorer.exe) and only provide the file name for the IconFile value?
In fiddling with the INI, I messed up the path. The path has been corrected, so the Sneak Peek and the title bar icons are showing as they were supposed to. HOWEVER, the task bar icon will keep changing every time I update XYplorer as it derives its icon from what is in "All Programs -> XYplorer" and that is more than a mild annoyance.Bad news and good news can appear at the same time, unfortunately...zer0 wrote:Ehhh, I screwed up
It's an Explorer rather than an XYplorer thing which takes some fiddling as well as pinning the XYplorer icon to the taskbar to work around. If you're up to that, here are the steps:zer0 wrote:HOWEVER, the task bar icon will keep changing every time I update XYplorer as it derives its icon from what is in "All Programs -> XYplorer" and that is more than a mild annoyance.
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