Changing Executable Icon

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Black Hydra (Posted 2006) [#1]

I want to be able to change the default icon used for the executable/shortcut. Does anyone here know how I can do this? I was using IconForge but trying to save a new icon doesn't work because no icon exists for the program already (it wanted me to save an icon that was sized 0x0). If someone has changed a BMax executable icon before, could you point me in the right direction?

popcade (Posted 2006) [#2]

Two common ways: 1.Get BLIde http://www.blide.org and buy it's ICON plugin. 2.Use ResHacker http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/, which can inject ICON data to a exe (even there's no ICON originally).

Black Hydra (Posted 2006) [#3]

Thanks I'll check out resource hacker.

EOF (Posted 2006) [#4]

BlitzMax Application - Icon guide

popcade (Posted 2006) [#5]

Jim's method is better than ResHacker. It's a one-time work when you built the icon import file, and you don't have to add the icon in ResHacker every time.

Grey Alien (Posted 2006) [#6]

I use Jim's method. Use to use Reshacker until I found it.

tonyg (Posted 2006) [#7]

MaxIcon

popcade (Posted 2006) [#8]

The MaxIcon link is dead :| anyone kept a copy?

Pingus (Posted 2006) [#9]

Thanks Jim for the icon trick. Works great :)

Filax (Posted 2006) [#10]

But not with icon with transparent background, there is some graphics glitch.