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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Changing the .exe Icon

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The Great Poe
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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 11:56
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How?

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Ilya
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Ilya
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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 12:41
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Click on icons, then add one.

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The Great Poe
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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 13:32
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Yay. It worked.

Umm... what sort of programs save as .ico?

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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 13:39
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Just save a 256 colour bitmap, and change the extension to .ico

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The Great Poe
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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 14:44
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I tried it, and the DB editor said it was an invalid image, wouldn't use it.

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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 15:13
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It seems that DBpro only support 16 color ICO file. When I tried to use icons greater than that color depth, the icon appears garbled up. I am using Blue IDE to add icon though.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 03:16
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A renamed bitmap is not an icon, for lots of things it's close enough but dbpros icon support is flakey at the best of times. At least give it a fighting chance and supply a valid icon.

Also check out this icon changing program by empty
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=36278&b=5

For a good but not free icon editor http://www.microangelo.us/


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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 05:42
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google it. I came up with this:http://www.shelllabs.com/icon_changer.htm. seems reasonable, but try the trial first

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The Great Poe
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 09:01
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Does anyone agree with me that it's ridiculous to have to pay for an icon changer?

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Bulleyes
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 16:04
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Why pay for another icon changer? I am happy with my 16 colors icon now. Unless you wanna create an icon that is greater than 16 colors, otherwise, you can just drop in any ICO file in the DBpro IDE.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 21:43
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Well, download my icon changer (use link above, kindly posted by the_winch). Besides the application and other stuff it contains a readme that explains what kind of icons (colour depths & sizes) DBpro likes.

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The Wendigo
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2004 12:48
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I got a program that converts bitmaps to icons and it is FREE!

Gimme a sec to upload it and you can have it!

Supports (I think, been a while):
16x16, 32x32, 64x64 size
8, 24, 32 bit Icons (yes 32! but I doubt many programs do)
Transparency (but I'm not sure it's implemented)

I'll repost with a link

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The Wendigo
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2004 13:39 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2004 13:40
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ok, here it is:

http://www.geocities.com/djpeterson83/projects/wicon.zip

if you have any problems, check out IconConverter.txt for support and contact info. I made the program in VB6 and used the Package and Deployment Wizard (ick!) so all dependencies should be there, but in the event that they aren't or it just won't run, post here again and I'll see what I can do.

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The Great Poe
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Posted: 24th Sep 2004 07:31
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WENDIGO'S ICON CONVERTER = WORKING.

Thanks, man.

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The Wendigo
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Posted: 24th Sep 2004 08:19
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no problem! Glad I could help!

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