Embarcadero just released a whole bunch of neat looking icons that I'd like to use to make my Delphi 7 and 2009 apps look fancier. Is there a setting (or hack) in those IDEs that lets me change the default exe icon?
I'm not going to downvote this, but I wish you'd delete this answer. If I had to ask a question that received this answer I wouldn't be much of a programmer.
Peter Turner
2010-03-10 16:16:51
all sorts of questions are asked here. i answered as i understood it.
Andrey
2010-03-10 17:01:32
That's fine, thanks for not voting to close it as a dupe at least.
Peter Turner
2010-03-10 17:22:33
+1
A:
You could always use a resource editor to find the icon in the Delphi ide or bpl and change it to something else. That would be permanent for all new projects.
Jeff Cuscutis
2010-03-16 13:12:33
Yeah, do you know what that is? I searched for all the .res files and couldn't find anything. (using Delphi 7)
Peter Turner
2010-03-16 14:55:08
A:
Apart from the fact that Andrey answered exactly what you asked I assume you want to add more icons to your executable than just the one you can set in the project option? This can be done by adding a *.rc file to the project. The following line should go into your project:
{$R 'Icons.res' 'Icons.rc'}
The rc file is a plain text file that Delphi compiles into a res. To the rc file add 1 icon per line like this:
XIcon01 ICON ".\Images\ico\ADDRESS2.ico"
XIcon02 ICON ".\Images\ico\ADDRESS3.ico"
XIcon03 ICON ".\Images\ico\ADDRESS4.ico"
The first part is the name of the icon. I chose names that come after Mainicon alphabetically with Mainicon being the icon that you define in the project options. I'm not sure (maybe somebody can confirm?) but I think that Delphi compiles the first icon as the application icon so I made sure my additional icons sort later. In case you want to change the application's icon at runtime you can use the 2 Application.Icon.LoadFromResource routines. Hope that helps
Joe Meyer
2010-04-01 06:54:42