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Application Icon path in MS Access

How do you access the Application Icon path in MS Access 2003 programmatically? ...

Problems with setting application icon

(I'm using Visual Studio 2008, though I remember having similar problems with older versions as well.) I've tried several different methods (many of them mentioned in this other question), but I am still having some strange issues: When including an icon as a resource, it does show up as the executable file's icon immediately, but for...

How do I add an icon to a mingw-gcc compiled executable?

In Windows, using mingw's gcc, is there anyway to specify that the output exe file is to take an icon file, so that the exe file shows with that icon in explorer? ...

WPF: Disappaearing icons

I have several icons which are declared in Window.Resources. They show up fine the first time they need to appear (eg: a Menu is clicked, the MenuItem icon works), but after another Menu (eg: a context menu) is shown, the original icon disappears and does not return. It's as though the last element which used the icon for the first time ...

How big should an Internet Explorer toolbar icon be?

I'm trying adding my own toolbar icon to Internet Explorer but am unsure what size it should be. The Designing Toolbar Icons for Internet Explorer articles on TechNet indicates 20x20 and 16x16 pixels. Messages (1, 2) in the Internet Explorer Toolbar (Deskband) Tutorial at Code Project imply 22x22 and 16x16 pixels. Using Internet Expl...

Windows Form TreeView - PNG Image Background

We are using famfamfam png icons. When TreeNodes are assigned one of these images there is an odd blue background colored inside the icons. How can we fix this? ...

Should icons ever change on their own based on background colors selected?

A requirment has been given that the desktop icon change colors "to fit well" with the users chosen desktop color. Not only is that a vague requirement but it is not the standard way that applications behave. The correct solution is to provide a number of icons which the users can select from. I just think its a bad idea. We are in t...

What kind of user-level abstraction should I use for hierarchical tags?

By user-level abstraction I mean what should I call them and what kind of icon should I use to represent it in the UI? The concept of tags should be familiar to most users right now, but I'm not so sure hierarchical tags are, nor does the abstraction of tags completely fit. What I have is actually something between folders and tags, in...

ILMERGE icon for final .exe

I have a couple of dlls and an .exe file (call it input.exe). These are currently merged into a single output.exe file using ILMERGE. The input.exe file has an icon with it. However the output.exe that is created does not have the icon in input.exe So to sum it up, I would like to have an icon for the output.exe (that is created usi...

How can i set an icon for my own file extension

i register my file extension in windows with "ftype" and "assoc", this works. now i have the bad looking default icon, how can i change this icon?? ...

How to modify Sharepoint filetype icons depending on parts of the filename?

We have a SharePoint Document library, where we store html files with links to external files. Samples: mypicture.jpg.html mywordfile.docx.html mypdffile.pdf.html and so on. Now by default all Files show up with the HTML Icon, referenced in the DOCICON.XML file. Thats of course correct as the .html extension shows, it is a HTML file....

C# remove icon from the form's title bar

Hello, C# 2005. A client has asked me to remove the icon from the form's title bar. As they don't want to display any icon. But this me guessing as when I click on the icon property you have to browse to some icon. Many thanks, ...

Are there free iPhone navigation bar icon sets available?

I want to use up/down icons like the ones used by "mail" in the upper-right corner when you're viewing a specific message. Are these icons available for free anywhere? Beyond that, are there any sites with free navigation bar, toolbar, or tab bar icons? Thank you! ...

How to control what happens when a program is iconned in Windows XP

I have a real-time program that needs to be operating continuously. When the program is iconned, it seems that it sometimes stops updating and other times will abort when it is restored to the active state. Is there a method of controlling what happens when my program is iconned? I am using Visual Studio 2005. ...

Generating icons for iPhone UITabBar

I’ve been busy working on the graphics for my iPhone application. I started working on generating icons for my UITabBar and ran into lots of problems. How do you create these icons? I created this solution: http://www.nailrails.com/?p=46 Are there any shortcomings to this approach? It seemed to work for the few icons I created... ...

How to get icon and description from file extension using Delphi?

Basically I have a TcxGrid which will be listing various files names and I'd like to give further details based on the file extension, specifically it's description (e.g. for .PDF it's "Adobe Acrobat Document") and it's related icon. I notice there is a very similar question already but it's C# related and I'd like something Delphi base...

What's a good, free, drop-in set of mimetype icons?

I want a set of mimetype icons to go with my file uploads, to show in users' files lists and the like. It should be: 16x16 PNG or JPG (other sizes through 64x64 would be a bonus but not required) already organized such that I can do e.g. mimetype.sub('/','-') + '.png' and get the icon file name (I'd like to avoid spending a bunch of t...

Windows Explorer - Dynamic Icons For Same File Extensions

For Visual Studio .sln files, Window Explorer is doing something "clever" to figure out whether to display the v8 or v9 icons. Now when it comes to double-clicking/launching the icon, I know that it goes through a "Visual Studio Launcher" app which looks at the version info in the sln file and selectively runs VS2005 or VS2008 But any...

Shell Icon Overlay (C#)

I need a method to create Icon Overlay's for Folders and Files in Windows XP/Vista, using C# or C++? Any examples? Thanks, -Sean! ...

Can I use Apple artwork in my iPhone app?

In my app, I want to give the user the opportunity to add some comments to a listed item. Rather than showing a "add comments" button, I want to show a little icon. Being lazy, but also, using the visual language of a Mac user, I would like to use the the icon of the TextEdit application. What would Apple think of this? Obviously, I coul...