Creating an icon
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| I am using protean for BlitzPlus but it doesn't let you associate an icon with the .exe (it does for Blitz2D and 3D!). Can anyone recommend a program to do this easily? Also I have used the free Imagicon program but it only seems to save a single size, surely so that my .exe has a decent icon in different display modes I need a 16x16, 32x32 and 48x48 icon or will windows scale it for me? Thanks! |
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| Windows will scale it for you, a 32x32 icon would probably be best. I'm planning on adding multiple icon files to Imagicon at some point ;) Here is some code for changing the B+ icon... icon=ExtractIconA(QueryObject(window,1),"youricon.ico",0) SetClassLongA(QueryObject(window,1),-14,icon) And the decls... .lib "user32.dll" SetClassLongA%(hWnd%,nIndex%,Value%):"SetClassLongA" .lib "shell32.dll" ExtractIconA%(hWnd%,File$,Index%):"ExtractIconA" |
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| And the decls... .lib "user32.dll" SetClassLongA%(hWnd%,nIndex%,Value%):"SetClassLongA" .lib "shell32.dll" ExtractIconA%(hWnd%,File$,Index%):"ExtractIconA" ok please make it simple for someone like me, what do i actually enter into the 'dll's thanks |
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| Thanks VIP3R, I'll give it a try! [Edit] uh, yeah, seems I'm too dumb to get this to work. Anyway, when you say change the Blitz Plus icon, what do you mean? I want to change the .exe icon which is currently just a standard "no icon window" for an .exe. [/Edit] |
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| Ok, I'll try and explain it a little better ;) The code I mentioned above is for changing the icon within the B+ application title bar itself, not the exe. To change the exe icon, I use ResHack which is a Win32 file utility. You can find it here You need to have your icon prepared then do the following... Open your exe in ResHack Select 'Action' then 'Add a new resource' Select your icon and fill in the empty fields with 'ICON' Save the exe To change the icon on the B+ application title bar... Prepare your icon file and save it in the application folder. Now make two text files using notepad... .lib "user32.dll" SetClassLongA%(hWnd%,nIndex%,Value%):"SetClassLongA" Save the above text as 'user32.decls' and place it in your B+ userlibs folder. .lib "shell32.dll" ExtractIconA%(hWnd%,File$,Index%):"ExtractIconA" Save the above text as 'shell32.decls' and place it in your B+ userlibs folder. Now restart B+ and add this code to your B+ application source after creating your window... icon=ExtractIconA(QueryObject(window,1),"youricon.ico",0) SetClassLongA(QueryObject(window,1),-14,icon) 'window' is the name (handle) you used when creating the window... i.e. window=CreateWindow(title$,x,y,width,height[,group[,style]]) 'youricon.ico' is the name of your icon file. Voila :) |
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| Truly excellent thanks VIP3R |
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| You're welcome ;) |
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| Just added the icon to my mini game, check out the showcase for Tetroid. |
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| awesome, thanks:) |
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