icons

Qt Toolbar button icons show in Windows after MinGW build, but disappear after being built with g++

I'm developing a PHP IDE similar to Eclipse, but much more light weight. For the interface I'm using Qt 4.4.3 which seems to be working great. I've primarily been using my Windows machine to do most of the coding in Eclipse CDT and using MinGW as the compiler. A couple of days ago I took the code an put it on my Eee PC with Linux just ...

Icons for an IPhone application user interface

This has been asked before but not satisfying for me. If you develop an IPhone application you need some basic icons. For me they fall into two categories: a) Icons that represent your application and b) Icons in your applications user interface. For the first category you are basically stuck to create your own icon or to hire someone,...

Is there a standard icon size and color depth for J2ME?

There are many phones, each with it's own icon size (for example, Nokia has 19 different sizes, http://www.j2meforums.com/wiki/index.php/Application_Icon_sizes). I would like to use only one icon (even if it's displayed poorly). Is there a single icon size and color depth that displays in all phones? ...

Is there a method to change a MIDLet icon once it's downloaded?

Given that there are many sizes and color depths for different phones (even for the same manufacturer), i would like to have one application for all of them and then, download a proper icon for the phone de app is downloaded into. Is there a way to change the MIDLet icon once the application is downloaded? ...

Icon display in WinForms app

When an application icon is displayed, is it Windows who decides which version (bit depth) to use or is it somehow set in the ICO file? If I create an ICO file only with 32bit colors (24bit + 8bit transparency), the icon displays fine on Win XP. If I add for example 4bit version, Windows use always this 4bit version, even if there are 3...

What's the best tradeoff between text and icons on buttons?

In a discussion with co-workers today, I lamented that I can't ever remember what an icon means, and have to hover over them to see the tooltips, and thus to find the button I need. On their side, they were saying that when the text needs to be translated, it might not fit (German vs English for example), and that every place where the...

Button image too far from top of button; too close to bottom of button

I'm working on a Windows Form in VB.NET 2005 and I would like to have some buttons with images (I'm talking about the plain, vanilla System.Windows.Forms.Button). I have everything set up the way I want it but the images are displaying too low on the button, such that the bottom of the icon is almost right on the bottom of the button an...

How can I extract a specific Image from an Icon file in .NET?

Icon files (*.ico) may contain multiple images at different sizes and of different colour depths. How can I obtain a System.Drawing.Image object from a .ico file? One option is Image.FromFile(...), but for icon files with multiple images there is no way to specify which image size and colour depth to return. Ideally the solution would...

How to have favicon / icon set when bookmarklet dragged to toolbar?

I've made myself a bookmarklet, and it functions just fine, but when added to a toolbar in Opera or Firefox, it just takes on the default bookmark icon for the browser (a globe and a star, respectively). My site has a favicon, and the window, tab and even [site] bookmark uses the favicon I've specified. Just not my bookmarklet. How ca...

What is a great free icon editor for windows?

I'm looking for a good icon editor for windows. Does anyone have some good recommendations? ...

Get icons for common file types

Hi I want to get the icons of common file types in my dll. I am using vc++. I only have the file extension and mime type of the file based on which I want to get the icon for the file. Can someone please tell me how I can do that? (The method available in vc++ needs the user to give the path of the file for which the icon is needed. I ...

Embedding icon in .exe with py2exe, visible in Vista?

Hello, I've been trying to embed an icon (.ico) into my "compyled" .exe with py2exe. Py2Exe does have a way to embed an icon: windows=[{ 'script':'MyScript.py', 'icon_resources':[(1,'MyIcon.ico')] }] And that's what I am using. The icon shows up fine on Windows XP or lower, but doesn't show at all on Vista. I suppose this is...

Jquery accordion plugin

Hi : I am use Jquery accordion plugin. I need to use my own header icons, according to doc, i need to create css class with background image. so i did this in my css file. .normal_arrow { background : url(../images/arrowonly.jpg); } .circle_arrow { background : url(../images/circle_arrow.jpg); } .circle_arrow_down { back...

C# + Excel 2003 - transparent custom icon

I use following class to generate icon for custom toolbar in Excel 2003 from my C# code: public class ImageConverter : System.Windows.Forms.AxHost { public ImageConverter() : base("59EE46BA-677D-4d20-BF10-8D8067CB8B33") { } public static stdole.IPictureDisp ImageToIpicture(System.Drawing.Image image) { ...

Default icons for Windows applications?

I've just recently begun coding desktop apps in c# and I'm wondering if Visual Studio or MSDN provides a default set of icons for applications, i.e. icons for common actions, GUI elements, data types, etc. For instance, I have a button that the user clicks on to select a file, it would be nice if I could use Windows' standard folder icon...

How big should a Firefox toolbar button be?

What size, in pixels, should a custom Firefox toolbar button icon be? I've seen quite a variety. Most commonly I've come across 32x32, 24x24 and 16x16 but also 10x10, 15x15, 16x14, etc. I cannot find a definitive reference. Also see: How big should an Internet Explorer icon be? ...

Is it safe to dispose the Icon after calling Icon.ToBitmap()?

After calling System.Drawing.Icon.ToBitmap() to create an image, is it safe to dispose the original Icon? ...

I want to implement a File Explorer, How can I read file's icon and display them?

I want to implement a File Explorer, It is different from a normal file explorer, it first scan file system and store information into database, them read file system information from Database, and display them, I need to store the icons of the file, how can I do this? Is there any Windows APIs? Many thanks! ...

How does Vista generate the icon for documents associated to my application?

Can I affect the process? I have an application built in .NET 3.5 / VS2008. I have embedded multiple icons into the app with a win32 .res file. This is done in the Properties box for the Project in VS2008 - instead of specifying an .ico file, tick the box to specify a .res file. In the .res file you can have multiple icons. See here ...

Additional icons for the Fam Fam Fam Silk Iconset.

The FamFamFam Silk icons are very popular. However they don't cover everything. Once I found an additional set of FamFamFam Silk remixes but for the life of me I can not find these remixed icons again. What icons exist on the net that are Creative Commons licensed that fit in with the style of the Silk icon set. ...