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)Vista? foobar2000? What's that?peterbonge wrote: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.
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 wrote:Okay, I found a nice way to add a Vista-friendly icon. You like?
Yes, just for testing.peterbonge wrote: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 wrote:Okay, I found a nice way to add a Vista-friendly icon. You like?
No, the old icon was just 8bit! -> no antialiasing/alpha-transparency -> rounded corners doesn't look so good.admin wrote:Why do you think 32x32 32bit will better under XP also? The old icon (which IS 32x32 32bit) looks totally alright under my XP.
Oh, absolutely! I'm greatful that you mentioned it.peterbonge wrote:No, the old icon was just 8bit! -> no antialiasing/alpha-transparency -> rounded corners doesn't look so good.admin wrote:Why do you think 32x32 32bit will better under XP also? The old icon (which IS 32x32 32bit) looks totally alright under my XP.
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
IconDeveloper v1.3.0 (Shareware without time limit):admin wrote: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.
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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... Well, I think that should work if you know how to do it.jacky wrote:Just a quick question: why? can't you compile them into a ressource file (*.res) and simply add it to your VB project?Code: Select all
I have to manually inject these icon resources after each build -- a PITA, and something I might not do for each BETA version...
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:admin wrote:Well, I think that should work if you know how to do it.
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1 24 "MyProject.manifest"
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@echo off
d:\micros~1.0\Wizards\rc MyProject.rc
ren MyProject.res MyProject.res
pause