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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Pictures and Image processing
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00328784
Message ID:
00328848
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>>>>>Is there any way to add an icon with 256 colors along with the normal 16 colors?
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>>>>>When compiling, VFP is converting our 256 color icon images to 16 colors. If we have an icon that contains 256 color images and 16 color images, VFP only adds the 16 color images. If we have an icon with only 256 color images, VFP converts them to 16 color images.
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>>>>>Are we limited to just 16 color images for our icon?
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>>>>Doug,
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>>>>I haven't had a problem adding a 256 color icon. I didn't use the Image Editor to create it however. I don't think that it can do more than 16 colors. I used VC++ to create it (and the 16x16 icon as well).
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>>>Hmmm. I used VC++ as well. Any ideas what I'm missing here?
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>>Are you saying that you have both a 16 and 256 color 32x32 icon? If so, I'd kill the 16 color one. I've used a 256 32x32 in several apps and they look fine.
>
>Nope. I've tried both. An icon with 256 color and 16 color images, and I've tried an icon with only 256 color images. When I tried it with the icon that contains only 256 color images, my executable has a fox icon.
>
>Any ideas?

Yeah, Doug. You'll need a 16x16 icon as well in the icon file. If there's only a 32x32, you get the foxhead.
George

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