| Re: Windows Question Related to IDL [message #33338] |
Wed, 18 December 2002 12:33  |
Rick Towler
Messages: 821
Registered: August 1998
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"David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote
> Folks,
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> Do you know when you start a windows application up,
> the icon and window title for those windows change,
> reflecting the new application? IDL's windows, for example,
> have the little green/red squares logo in front of what
> looks like a notebook (I don't know, don't ask me).
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> Where do these windows find their icons? If I wanted
> to replace the IDL icon with an icon of my choosing,
> how would I do that? I presume this might be a register
> thing, but I don't really know where to look.
>
> Ideally, I would like to be able to create customized
> windows for my customer applications.
You would think the answer was in the registry. So much magic in there....
But it isn't. The icons you speak of are built into idlde.exe and
idlrt.exe. Most decent icon editors can make the change. I have used a
shareware program microangelo. For this specific program you open up your
.exe in the "librarian" and then select an icon to edit. You can edit both
the big (32x32) and little (16x16) icons. Note that sometimes only a single
32x32 icon is stored which in that case windows will scale that icon for the
16x16 title bar and application bar icons.
-Rick
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