Pre-emptive justification: You need to fiddle with icons when programming, so this counts as a programming question, right? Do you know of any good freeware applications that can browse the contents of Windows Icon Library (.ICL) files? I'm not interested in simple extraction. I'm looking for explorer-like browsing within libraries and ...
I probably spend far too much time trying to make my visual interfaces look good, and while I'm pretty adept at finding the right match between usability and style one area I am hopeless at is making nice looking icons. How do you people overcome this (I'm sure common) problem? I'm thinking of things like images on buttons and perhaps ...
I'm looking for an online solution for generating .ICO files. I'd like the ICO files to have the ability to have transparency as well. What software or web site do you use to create them? [Update] To clarify, I have an existing image in PNG format, 32 x 32 pixels. I want to generate the icon from this existing file, not create a bra...
I'd like to get the Tree icon to use for a homegrown app. Does anyone know how to extract the images out as .icon files? I'd like both the 16x16 and 32x32, or I'd just do a screen capture. ...
I'd like to know what's the way to actually set the icon of a .bat file to an arbitrary icon. How would I go about doing that programmatically, independently of the language I may be using. ...
I'm writing a small GUI application that will be released under the Apache License 2.0. I'd like to pretty it up using some free icons. Of course, just pirating content is wrong. I'd like the copyright license of any images to complement that of the application - that is, permissive use of the content with appropriate attribution (includ...
I'm interested in finding good icons/images that can be used in both 'free' and proprietary programs. Please include a description of any license restrictions associated with the source of the icons you suggest. ...
Is there a risk of legal trouble if you include GPL or LGPL licensed icons in a closed source software? Would it force it to become open source just to include the icon? Does it matter if the icon is compiled as a resource? Are the creative common licensed icons safe to use if you follow the attribution rules specified by the licen...
When I downloaded Skype, I noticed that, in place of a normal "disk image" icon, there was a custom icon, and when I double clicked on the icon, the window used a colorful image as the background, prompting me to drag the skype icon into the applications folder. How can I do that with my applications? Thanks, Jason ...
Is there any way to change Firefox system icon (the one on the left top of the window)? Precision : I want to change the icon of a bundled version of Firefox with apache/php and my application. So manual operation on each computer is not a solution. I try Resource Hacker and it's the good solution. The add ons one is good too. ...
I'd like to use a different icon for the demo version of my game, and I'm building the demo with a different build config than I do for the full verison, using a preprocessor define to lockout some content, use different graphics, etc. Is there a way that I can make Visual Studio use a different icon for the app Icon in the demo config ...
This problem has been afflicting me for quite a while and it's been really annoying. Every time I login after a reboot/power cycle the explorer takes some time to show up. I've taken the step of waiting for all the services to boot up and then I login, but it doesn't make any difference. The result is always the same: Some of the icons ...
How do I create a resource that I can reference and use in various parts of my program easily? My specific problem is that I have a NotifyIcon that I want to change the icon of depending on the state of the program. A common problem, but one I've been struggling with for a long time. ...
I have an exe file generated with py2exe. In the setup.py I specify an icon to be embedded in the exe: windows=[{'script': 'my_script.py','icon_resources': [(0, 'my_icon.ico')], ... I tried loading the icon using: hinst = win32api.GetModuleHandle(None) hicon = win32gui.LoadImage(hinst, 0, win32con.IMAGE_ICON, 0, 0, win32con.LR_DEFAUL...
I'm experimenting with adding icons to a shell extension. I have this code (sanitized for easy reading), which works: InsertMenu(hmenu, index, MF_POPUP|MF_BYPOSITION, (UINT)hParentMenu, namestring); The next step is this code: HICON hIconLarge, hIconSmall; ICONINFO oIconInfo; ExtractIconEx("c:\\progra~1\\winzip\\winzip32.exe", 0, &hI...
So far I had "designed" my app-icon in the Visual-Studio-Editor. 16-Colors, 4kB. Now someone created a more sophisticated and up-to-date app-icon for me, which results in a filesize of about 250kB. Problem: A user reported, that win2000 is complaining, because it is not able to digest this amount of data for an icon. Question: What ca...
I have a cross platform program that runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh. My windows version has an Icon but I don't know how to make have one for my Linux build. Is there a standard format for KDE, Gnome etc. or will I have to do something special for each one? My app is in c++ and distributed as source so the end user will compile it...
Our application has a file format similar to the OpenDocument file format (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument) - i.e. zipped with a manifest file, a thumbnail image, etc. I notice that OpenOffice files have a preview image of the Open Office file as their icons, both in Windows and in Linux. Is there some way to accomplish th...
I love writing my own web-based applications, but don't want to succumb to the not invented here syndrome. So before I go write this myself, I'm looking for solutions that either do this, or perhaps frameworks (like Django or Joomla, etc.) that give me a starting point fairly close to what I need. My company produces software with a la...
Several years back, I innocently tried to write a little app to save my tactically placed desktop icons because I was sick of dragging them back to their locations when some event reset them. I gave up after buring WAY too much time having failed to find a way to query, much less save and reset, my icons' desktop position. Anyone know ...