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What happened to my icon?
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Visual FoxPro
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00191679
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>I recently built an executable in VFP6.0. And before doing so, I attached an icon to this application by means of Project Information -> Attach Icon.
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>When I installed this application onto user's machine, the correct icon showed up on a Shortcut to this application; however, the application itself (applicationname.exe) still has the "fox" icon beside it.
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>However, when I created a Shortcut from this application and dragged it to my desktop, the custom icon (one I attached to the project) showed up fine. But when I moved this Shortcut to my MS Office by right-mouse clicked and dragged it onto his MS Office Tool Bar, the icon changed back to the little "fox".
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>From my MS Office, I attempted to change the icon from the item's "Properties" window and it would not change back to my custom icon; en though I saw the correct icon showed up as the "Current Icon", selected it and applied the changes, it still would not change it back.
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>If someone out there has fooled with this type of thing before, please tell me what I did wrong or perhaps show me the right way to attach an icon to an application so that anytime you make a copy or create a shortcut, the correct icon shows up along with the application.
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>Your help will be greatly appreciated.
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>CARIE

To get the icon to show up the same everywhere you need to create an icon file with two versions of the icon (32x32 and 16x16). There is a FAQ in the UT Knowledge Base with the procedure on how to do this with ImageEdit
Steve Ruhl
CitiMortgage, Inc.
steven.ruhl@citibank.com Office
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