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Title: EXE titlebar icons
Post by: Jerry Muelver on March 04, 2008, 11:06:02 AM
When you first Build your source into a single-file EXE, you get a choice of icons for your app's titlebar. Where do those icons come from? Can I get my mitts on them? I'm looking to simplify my icon-embedding as resource for compiling from inside a project instead of as a standalone source file.
Title: Re: EXE titlebar icons
Post by: ExMember001 on March 04, 2008, 01:09:01 PM
if you look above the icons you see:
C:\Windows\system32\SHELL32.dll

thats where they came from ;) they are ressources of shell32.dll
Title: Re: EXE titlebar icons
Post by: Jerry Muelver on March 04, 2008, 02:10:41 PM
ah-HAH! Hid them in a DLL, did they? Well, I'll just have to take a peek inside there, then. Thanks, KrYpT!

(Edit) - Okay, I got 'em. No frogs, but you can't have everything!
Title: Re: EXE titlebar icons
Post by: Bruce Peaslee on March 05, 2008, 10:02:24 AM
Quote from: Jerry Muelver on March 04, 2008, 02:10:41 PM
Okay, I got 'em. No frogs, but you can't have everything!

There are free icon editors out there which would allow someone to create a frog icon.
Title: Re: EXE titlebar icons
Post by: Jerry Muelver on March 05, 2008, 10:26:10 AM
Thanks, Bruce. Alyce already whipped up a froggie for me. I'll have to lay-in an icon editor, however, if only to have a Complete Toolbox.
Title: Re: EXE titlebar icons
Post by: Bruce Peaslee on March 05, 2008, 10:32:22 AM
Quote from: Jerry Muelver on March 05, 2008, 10:26:10 AM
Thanks, Bruce. Alyce already whipped up a froggie for me.

Add a banana and you've got breakfast!   :o
Title: Re: EXE titlebar icons
Post by: pistol350 on March 05, 2008, 01:49:56 PM
I just hope the icon Alyce gave you is similar to this one  :)
Title: Re: EXE titlebar icons
Post by: Alyce on March 05, 2008, 02:22:22 PM
Quote from: pistol350 on March 05, 2008, 01:49:56 PM
I just hope the icon Alyce gave you is similar to this one  :)

Similar. Yours is a better version.  ;)
Title: Re: EXE titlebar icons
Post by: pistol350 on March 05, 2008, 04:17:39 PM
Thanks Alyce.

As you probably noticed, i made 2 versions with different resolutions.
first 32*32 and second 64*64

I had to do a trick to get a better image quality.
Title: Re: EXE titlebar icons
Post by: Jerry Muelver on March 05, 2008, 04:34:51 PM
Very nice, you guys... er... guy and gal. Now you've got me interested in doing icons!