[7.4.1]Changing the runtime icon

For my Windows app I need to change the icon.  I used ResHacker to change
it.  It seems to have taken in Windows Explorer but when I start my app I
get the old VW icon.  I used the GUI painter tool to inspect my window
thinking I need to specify a different icon, but there is no setting there
for that.

What am I missing?

-Carl Gundel
http://www.runbasic.com 

The easiest thing to do is to add the following in your pre-strip method
that runs when you build your runtimes,

Icon constantNamed: #default put: Icon runbasic.

That way you don't ever have to worry about properly setting it on every
window, it just takes over.

Cheers!

-Boris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Gundel [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1:08 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [7.4.1]Changing the runtime icon
>
> For my Windows app I need to change the icon.  I used ResHacker to
change
> it.  It seems to have taken in Windows Explorer but when I start my
app I
> get the old VW icon.  I used the GUI painter tool to inspect my window
> thinking I need to specify a different icon, but there is no setting
there
> for that.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> -Carl Gundel
> http://www.runbasic.com
>

I thought if I rebooted Windows maybe that would reset something being
cached.  Nothing doing.  In fact it did exactly the opposite of what I
expected.  Now the VW icon appears in Explorer for my vm.  Open it again
using ResHacker and it shows the icon I installed.  This is really baffling.
:-/

-Carl Gundel
http://www.runbasic.com

> For my Windows app I need to change the icon.  I used ResHacker to change
> it.  It seems to have taken in Windows Explorer but when I start my app I
> get the old VW icon.  I used the GUI painter tool to inspect my window
> thinking I need to specify a different icon, but there is no setting there
> for that.
>
> What am I missing?

If you don't specify an icon, all windows get the default. To change
that default icon, do this:

Icon constantNamed: #default put: myIcon

To change the icon for a particular window, save it in the class
resource method "icon" and set it in postBuildWith:
        aBuilder window icon: (Icon image: self class icon).

Of course you can do more, such as adding a mask (Icon
class>>figure:shape:) or caching the icon as a named constant in Icon
(as for the default above). You should also send #cleanFigure to your
icons (see the comment).

HTH,
Steve

Carl Gundel a écrit :
> I thought if I rebooted Windows maybe that would reset something being
> cached.  Nothing doing.  In fact it did exactly the opposite of what I
> expected.  Now the VW icon appears in Explorer for my vm.  Open it
> again using ResHacker and it shows the icon I installed.  This is
> really baffling. :-/
If I remember well you have to do the resource hacking on all the
executables.

If you replace the default Icon in Icon and initialize the class you
will also see your own logo on unexpected system dialogs.

Rgrds,
@Maarten,