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DarkBASIC Discussion / "How Do I make my own picture for an EXE?" - Read here to find out.........

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 15th Apr 2005 05:03 Edited at: 15th Apr 2005 05:56
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Hi,

Alot of people ask "How do I make my own EXE picture?", this is where you can find out. Alot of people say things like "You need to get this program for $100.." and stuff, but no, that's just plain silly (no offence to the people who said that ) - Here's how you do it....

Make an Image (The size doesn't matter, but make it around 20x20 pixels or so...)
Make a shortcut to you EXE....
Right-hand-click on your shortcut and click on 'Properties'...
Click on 'Change Icon' and then go to 'Browse'....
Click on the arrow button next to where it says 'Icon Files' and change it to 'Any file'.....
Navigate about and find your picture....
Click OK...

This should change your EXE picture to whatever you want!

P.S. Use this...it's much better than the default picture.

Zotoaster-

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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 15th Apr 2005 05:33
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Quote: "P.S. Use this...it's much better than the boring old silver thing.."


Silver thing? Surely not everyone uses the same system.
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Zotoaster
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Posted: 15th Apr 2005 05:56
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well you know when u make an exe, it has a silver picture as it, or maybe its just for me that it happens, ill change that heheh..

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Feugsy
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Posted: 15th Apr 2005 17:50
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thanx thats really easy and with no expensive programs

cheers

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Phrozin
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Posted: 16th Apr 2005 13:34
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you can also use an autorun file if you have the program on a cd.


just type something like that into notepad and save it as autorun.inf then just add it to the root level of the cd before you burn it.
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Knartz
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You could also try a resource hacker to edit the *.ico
and 2 toaster : i think an ico is about 32 pixel * 32pixel in size

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blanky
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Yes, USE RESOURCE HACKER.

What you're doing ATM, is basically just changing the icon of the shortcut. If someone actually looks at the EXE, then they can see 'the boring grey silver thing'.

With Resource Hacker, you can actually CHANGE the icon of the EXE.

Also, icons are normally 16x16, 32x32, and 48x48 in size (you can have more than one icon size in an ICO file).

But, you can tell Windows to use a stupid size like 15x15 or 20x20 (look in Desktop Settings), and everything looks stretched....... apart from your EXE, if you made your icon this size.

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blanky
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Also, autorun files work like this:

Quote: "
[AUTORUN]
OPEN=your_game_or_game_menu.exe
ICON=an_icon.ico
"


This would then be saved as autorun.inf, and you should just burn it in the topmost directory of your CD.

If you omit the OPEN= line, then Windows Explorer just opens and shows you the files in the root of the disc (if you kept the ICON line. This is an odd quirk.)

If you omit the ICON= line, then the icon of the CD is just a windows default one.

If you omit both, then you're just hurting yourself, SO STOP READING THIS AND COME UP WITH A GOOD MENU PROGRAMMY THINGY.

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