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2D All the way! / Question about icons

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It Wasnt Me
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Posted: 19th Nov 2004 23:56
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I am very new at this so be kind.

I am programming a game in DBPro and I made an icon (with a .ico extention) in 256 colors. I set the icon to be the program's icon
but the icon looks hideous on the exe. I think that it changed it to 16 colors. Is there any way to keep this from happening?

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It Wasnt Me
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Posted: 20th Nov 2004 00:05
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I probably didn't post this in the right place.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2004 01:42
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Good question actually...mine did the very same. Wasnt too concerned with it so didnt much bother with it.

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Agent
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Posted: 1st Dec 2004 17:34
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Heh. I used a BMP image as my icon and yes, it looks terrible beside the EXE. It converts the image to 16 colours - what's up with that? Any way to avoid it?
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MikeyP
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Posted: 1st Dec 2004 23:36
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I don't know why it does this. But If you search ResHack on google, that program may be able to do what you need.

Just Compile Then open the .Exe with ResHack, and you *should* be able to change it like that.
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2004 04:10
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Thanks! I will try it.

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